Minutes
Summer
18th June - Tutor
- First meeting with Patrick and Adrian.
- Introduction to the CUPIDE system
- To do: brainstorm on issues we are going to work on in the coming year
27th July - Tutor
- More knowledge about the CUPIDE system
- Some other possibilities:
- Research on Wikipedia coredump
- FYP management system
17th August - Tutor
- Feasibility of transitional text comparison - Difficult
- Feasibility of FYP management system - Simple, but not in accordance to our project's aim
September
3rd, Monday - Professor
- First meeting with Professors (co-supervisor: Prof. Jimmy Lee)
- Target: Implement a integrated writting style analyzer/ grammer checker
- To Start with: Statistical text analysis
- 2 harddisks borrowed from department
5th, Wednesday - Professor
- Start preparatory work
- To do list for the coming 2-3 weeks:
- research on the internet existing text analysors and grammer checkers
- comparison between these gadgets
- list down all possible functions we may implement, in the form of specification document.
- Recommended readings: Python (for text processing)
10th, Monday - Tutor
- Summary of working target to Patrick
- Tutor's recommended websites
- Borrowed recommended books
- To do: install Linux on harddisk
12th, Wednesday - Professor
- quite some functions collected, should start implementing
- start with the easiest one first, save pos tagging to the last
- To do: build a web interface with at least a simple word count function
- porf. king's advice:
- solve problems independently
- ask for resources we need
- apply data structures
19th, Wednesday - Professor
- implemented a simple web interface with word count function
- To do: text preprocessing
- Base on the CUPIDE source code
- Interpret text paragraph by paragraph
October
10th, Wednesday - Professor
- Implement the stemming function by using the Porter Algorithm
- Provide options of pre-processing functions for users
- Sort the unique word by different orders (e.g.Alphabetic order, Word frequency, etc.)
- Make the web interface looks profession and visually pleasing
24th, Wednesday - Professor
- Creat a user friendly interface
- Division of Labour (Interface & Functions)
- Write Specification (Design & Technical)
- Testing
