Hi,
I've tested the app and it works fine. It's a really cool way to present
history/ present/ news or any topic for that matter. Can I use it for looking
trough the Squeak mailing list?
It takes a few minutes to get used to the zooming function. How about a
magnifying glass tool?
It's really slow loading (+1 min) on a mac8500/150,
cable modem. I don't now how big the things pulled of the net are?
A few questions :
1 What do the red bars mean. Some are bigger than the others, are they more
valid than the others in a demo priority list?
2 When i click on the names I get a popup menu on related issues, but the sub
menu
do not evoke anything? Not yet implemented?
3 The "fixed y" button. Is that also part of the prioritizing of the info?

All of this probably becomes part of the documentation.

Karl


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.
>
> This is the first time I've released this code, but in a month or two the
> demo will be released via the Web for anyone to try. I'd like some
> feedback from people on the list before the public release.
>
> Thanks and have fun ;-)
>
> -Russell Swan
>
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