Links: authoring tools for AI

A n authoring tool is software that simplifies the creation of data or documents. Such software varies from text editors (emacs, vi) to software development environments (Microsoft's Visual Studio). However, a search for authoring tools on the World Wide Web suggests that the majority of authoring tools are HTML editors, course-ware creation tools, and multimedia presentation editors. Multimedia tools are tools that are used to create applications that use a variety of media (e.g., music, video, graphics, text, speech) to communicate their message. Courseware is software used in computer-based training to improve or replace stu-dent–teacher interaction. Document production tools include HTML editors and XML tools, which are often used to create document formats that are portable to different platforms or to enhance a document's semantic or structural information. Authoring tools are important for artificial intelligence because much of the " intelligence " in an application lies in its use of content or data (i. For example, my current research in building intelligent dialog systems for a tutoring system (see intelligence 10(1) 14–23, or at http://