Limitation in display size and resolution on mobile devices is one of the main obstacles for wide-spread use of web applications
in a wireless environment. Web pages are often too large for a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) screen to present. The same
problem exists for devices with low resolution such as WebTV. Manual reconstruction of web pages for these devices would ease
the problem; however, the large variation of display capabilities will greatly increase the burden of web page designers since
they have to customize a web page for each possible display device. In this paper, we propose a document segmentation and
presentation system. The system automatically divides a web document into a number of logical segments based on the screen
size and the structure and content of the document. Additional information such as overviews and summaries is also extracted
to facilitate navigation. The system presents the segments and structural information of a web document to make full use of
the screen for information finding.
This work was supported in part by grants from the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong (Grant No. HKUST 6079/01E).
The author is now with Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, HK.