Web Content Refinery Software Project

Some important points to think in research

Vishva Kumara — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:26:18 +0000

I have written the functions to filter the complete sentences and to list them to a DataGridView. Then only I realized that some sentences are referring to another sentence. Sentences starting with therefore, also, so, (in) this, (in) that, (in) these, (in) those were most probably referring to the sentence just before that. We should not measure for the subject relevancy for these sentences and put them only if the sentence before that is already selected to put.

There may be many other things we have to think (like this). Could you please check out and reply to this if you came across with a similar issue.

Read some books or whatever and come-out with “concepts”

Vishva Kumara — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:47:54 +0000

Sometimes the information we are searching for can come from places we do not expect. So read everywhere and find some valueble stuff to add to our project. I don’t mean that we should add all the “existing” fancy technologies, something “conceptual” we can use. I have read in a book in the library that a viewer coming to a web page goes up to three or two pages through links. The book was “Web Developing, Complete Reference”.

On the other hand we can’t expect the information directly from the page where Google takes us. The viewer has to go through links and find what he wants. So we have to cover that also in our software. I mean when it goes through a page it should also check the relevent links (By the link text) for information.

So I expect you all to “Think” and “Write down” something, then “Draw” diagrams. These diagrams are not necessory to be UML standerd diagrams. Any sketch that will help other’s to understand the concept will be good. I appreciate even if you just think about some “concepts” for the project. Thank you!

References
Web Developing, Complete Reference.
Thomas A. Powell

Meaning of a word

Vishva Kumara — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:52:37 +0000

In this section we will discuss about the meaning of the word “Meaning” and what is the meaning of a sentence. When we read a sentence there are some words that are not important than the others, the words we drop when we summarize. The nouns in a sentence makes the most of the meaning of it.

Let’s take this example:
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger Dijkstra

        In that sentence there are some words that make it meaningful for the subject it is relevant (AI). Question, Computer, Think, Submarine, and Swim But if we take these words alone, it also does not give us the meaning.
        When we summarize a sentence we do a similar thing. What we do is Re-Building a sentence from it’s own words or synonyms to give the same meaning, but in an efficient way. To do that we have to understand the meaning of the sentence and understand the functionality of each word and their subject relevancy.
        The word “Question” in the above sentence has a special functionality, putting the phrase “A computer can think” in a comparison with the second phrase about the “Submarine”. Therefore the words “Submarine” & “Swim” do not make the sentence relevant to Watercrafts or Sea.
        These are the boundary problems we have to face in this project (within our approach). But we have to make a solution within these boundaries, and that is usable.
In the above sentence there are some words like… the, of, is, a (Articles) and some words like… whether, can, no, more, interesting, than (Adjectives & Stuff). These words are not relevant to any subjects, but help us to understand the meaning. Let’s write the sentence again without the articles

Question whether computer can think no more interesting than question whether submarine can swim.

Ok, that does not make much harm to the sentence’s meaning. That means a sentence can still give it’s meaning without the articles. But we still need the Adjectives & Stuff to understand it (even they does not have a subject relevancy).
Now you will understand that the Meaning is a broader subject than the Subject relevancy. So we are going to build a solution to understand the subject relevancy not the meaning.

References
Wikipedia The free encyclopaedia