Would something like OTS (Open Text Summarizer: http://libots.sourceforge.net/ ) be worthwhile for such a purpose? There is an OTS plugin for regular desktop AbiWord that still works, as far as I know, and it is pretty uncanny how well it can summarize, but I don't know much more about it than that.
Ryan Walter Bender wrote: > forgot to hit reply-all > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Walter Bender* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Jul 12, 2007 7:17 AM > Subject: Re: [sugar] Journal fulltext search > To: Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > I suspect that kids, like adults and everyone else, will NOT routinely > go to the trouble of generating tags. (The except seems to be systems > like Flickr, where the tags have community value--help your friends > find your stuff, for example.) So, yes, I suggest some automatic > keyword generation as well. > > -walter > > > On 7/12/07, *Bert Freudenberg* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Is it anticipated to have the journal search by full text (which > seems useful to me if the kid does not bother to provide explicit > keywords when sav^H^H^Hkeeping)? If so, should an activity store a > text representation of the document as metadata, or will there be a > way to extract text/metadata from known document types? > > - Bert - > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > One Laptop per Child > http://laptop.org > > -- > Walter Bender > One Laptop per Child > http://laptop.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Ryan Pavlik AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/ "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." -- Helen Keller "The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that were created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers." -- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu Guide _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
