Steve Dunham wrote:
>On 3/3/06, David Huynh <dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu> wrote:
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>>of Piggy Bank + Solvent 3.x... work in early progress...
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>> http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/research/media/UIST%202006/uist2006.swf
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>>(Look ma, no angle bracket and no URI! No bnode. No xpath. No custom javascript scraper. It's just the ol' Web. With semantics.)
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>It's looking _very_ slick. I particularly like how the results are
>filtered in-place.
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Thanks, Steve :-) Yup, the "in-place" is the whole message to the user:
"it is the same Web that you've come to know and love, only better."
>A few ideas for enhancements (not that you don't have enough to keep
>you busy forever):
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> * Guess the property names from the values. (Maybe using some kind
>of text classification.)
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There's a possibility of using the fixed text nearby a field value as
the field name. But that is not always reliable. I'm also thinking about
retaining units (like $ from "$19.99" and % from "35% off") and formats
(like the strikethru in "was $19.99, now only $15.99"). Such are syntax
details that hint at semantics and help keep context.
> * Guess type of data (from the properties and text classification of
>the items/page)
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Not sure how to do this... Could you say some more on this?
> * Save to piggy bank (of course).
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Definitely. Now that I have total control of the Web page, I can even
add tagging UI right on top of each item... :-) Add context menu command
like "Call this phone number", "Add to my calendar using this date
field", etc.
> * Short term - I think you could make a good guess at what elements
>are addresses and put up a google map. That'd have good demo-value.
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Yes, I can see a little Google Map in the sidebar... Do you know of any
address detection Javascript code out there?
David
Received on Fri Mar 03 2006 - 21:57:45 EST