[DEMO][APP] Squeak client for timeline presentation

Les Tyrrell tyrrell at canis.uiuc.edu
Thu Feb 24 22:20:43 UTC 2000


Russell Swan wrote:
> 
> This changeset contains a demo of a program I wrote. Research area is
> organization and visualization of text collections. We've been doing
> research on automatic recognition of topics contained in text that has
> explicit date tags, such as news or e-mail. We decided to use timelines to
> present the information found to a user. Currently the corpus is
> preprocessed and topics are pulled out and ranked. The squeak client then
> goes to the server and pulls out the (static) summary information for
> display.
> 
> This is the first cut at the front end. I demoed this during a talk at
> CIKM in November, and at our labs dog-and-pony show, and my advisor is
> showing this to DARPA next week. In about two weeks I'm going to start
> rewriting this so it will query a server and get dynamic content about the
> topics for display. Currently it runs on two corpora - TDT1, which is
> January-June, 1995 of Reuters and CNN, and TDT2, which is January-June of
> CNN, AP wire, Voice of America, ABC World News tonight, New York Times,
> and Public Radio International.
> 
> The demo requires morphic. In a workspace in a Morphic world, evaluate
> 'Timeline tdt1demo' or 'Timeline tdt2demo' for the quick and light demos,
> and 'Timeline tdt2eval' and 'Timeline tdt2' for larger datasets that
> demonstrate some of the problems I'm encountering. The large datasets are
> pretty zippy on an iMac or a new PC, but are extremely slow on my 5 year
> old SGI.

I'm trying it out, but keep running into a halt at the bottom of
Timeline>>setDate:start:stop.  It doesn't seem to work if I try
to proceed.

-les





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