Re: Rethinking TouchGraph was Re: [unrev-II] WebSPHINX

From: Alex Shapiro (alex@touchgraph.com)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 10:50:23 PDT

  • Next message: Jack Park: "Re: [unrev-II] WebSPHINX"

    Jack, thanks, WebL is a great resource.  A particularly interesting page off the WebL homepage is one that shows how easy it is to write WebL scripts:
    http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/WebL/examples.html

    --Alex

    At 09:53 AM 10/10/01 -0700, you wrote:

    WebSPHINX is a GPL project.  A paper referenced at the websphinx site is:
    http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/rcm/www/papers/www7/www7.html

    It's about SPHINX, apparently an earlier project.
    What's interesting is figure 2 in that paper, showing a TouchGraph-like
    image and an outline image.  It turns out that much of the functionality of
    WebSPHINX could be duplicated using WebL, an open source (not GPL) web
    scripting language (first introduced to me by Adam Cheyer) and available at
    http://research.compaq.com/SRC/WebL/
    <note>research.compaq was originally a group that was at DEC</note>

    Take WebL and TouchGraph and you have WebSPHINX, methinks.

    Jack

    At 09:40 AM 10/10/2001 -0700, you wrote:
    >http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~rcm/websphinx/
    >
    >At 09:36 AM 10/10/2001 -0700, you wrote:
    > >"WebSPHINX ( Website-Specific Processors for HTML INformation eXtraction)
    > >is a Java class library and interactive development environment for Web
    > >crawlers. A Web crawler (also called a robot or spider) is a program that
    > >browses and processes Web pages automatically."
    > >
    > >A building block for complex systems, no?
    > >
    > >--
    > >-- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow@svpal.org>


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