BA Archive Index WAS: Re: Great? idea for improving this list (was Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Freezope learning environments)
Hi, (01)
Determining sequences of non-noise words might be a bit beyond me as
yet.
But it also might not be necessary in this application (see below).
It depends where things go and how far. (02)
So far my prototype produces bulky data sets like this from the test
data (a very small sample):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<index>
<word_data>
<word>Bringing</word>
<urloc>http://this.that.other/#nid03</urloc>
<para>Bringing Paths back in...
[snipped a load of data]
</para>
</word_data>
<word_data>
<word>Cheers</word>
<urloc>http://this.that.other/#nid05</urloc>
<para>Cheers,
Peter </para>
</word_data>
<word_data>
<word>Cursor</word>
<urloc>http://this.that.other/#nid02</urloc>
<para>I had to read it about 10 times, but I think I'm getting
there.
[snipped a load of data]
create a new Cursor if the permissions match. </para>
<urloc>http://this.that.other/#nid02</urloc>
<para>I had to read it about 10 times, but I think I'm getting
there.
[snipped a load of data]
Then the Cursor object walks the Node graph and only 'picks up' a node
to
create a new Cursor if the permissions match. </para>
</word_data>
...[snipped lots more data]
</index> (03)
I will try to implement a ring buffer to cut the amount of paragraph
data
per word down to a couple of lines.
(Transclusion into the web page would improve matters, but I'll think
about that later.) (04)
The idea is that you look up a word on the webpage/graph/whatever,
and listed below the word is a set of links and a snippet of text as a
hint,
so that the user can determine the
context (and hence the correct meaning, I hope) of the word, for each
link.
Clicking on the link takes you to the appropriate mail in BA archive,
and from
there you can track threads.
It might be good to have an outline of the thread next to the URL for
the index
entry though(?). (05)
There's also a lot of cruft relating to the message data inserted by the
reply-to mechanism
that I need to exclude.
It also might be an idea to exclude folks' names. (06)
--
Peter (07)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garold (Gary) L. Johnson" <dynalt@dynalt.com>
To: <ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 11:42 PM
Subject: RE: Great? idea for improving this list (was Re: [ba-ohs-talk]
Freezope learning environments) (08)
> FWIW,
>
> By taking sequences of non-noise words to some number, you begin to
build a
> phrase dictionary as well as a word dictionary, and that can prove
more
> useful.
>
> Give this phrase list and the tools to establish relationships within
the
> list, it is possible to develop a faceted thesaurus, which is not too
far
> distant from a topic map.
> One of Neil Larson's DOS programs does this and he used it to organize
huge
> hypertext systems.
>
> Single words are a start, but this extension should be easy to add
(more so
> that the initial work).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Garold (Gary) L. Johnson
> (09)