The needs for managing similar documents in different languages increases with the growing amounts of electronic information available in documents of the same type (e.g. news streams). This paper proposes a viable approach to information access emphasizing the hypertextual paradigm in a multilingual framework. This task of processing/structuring text so that cross-lingual hypertext links are generated will be called Multilingual Authoring (MA). Methods from Natural Language Processing, especially Information Extraction, to both monolingual and Multilingual Authoring will be described and a general architecture for MAw ll be defined. Effectiveness of the proposed approach will be discussed the description of the NAMIC prototype system 1