Keywords, concepts, and custom-generated e-book indexes

VictorianMoss writes “The Palo Alto Research Center has a number of interesting projects, and while their web-pages seem to be somewhat hit-and-miss insofar as maintence goes, MIT’s Techology Review managed to spot one of their teams out and about. In this case, they were at the Human-Computer Interaction conference in Vienna, presenting ScentIndex, a keyword and concept system that devises a custom index from the user input and the document’s data. Could this be the next step in streamlining the user interface of e-books and digitally archived materials like those of the massive Making of America project?”