15.976, Software: Request for Feedback

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-15-976. Tue Mar 23 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 15.976, Software: Request for Feedback

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Date:  Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:09:38 -0500 (EST)
From:  Andrew Kehoe <andrew at rdues.liv.ac.uk>
Subject:  Request for Feedback

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Date:  Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:09:38 -0500 (EST)
From:  Andrew Kehoe <andrew at rdues.liv.ac.uk>
Subject:  Request for Feedback

Dear Colleague

The Research and Development Unit for English Studies is made up of a
small team of corpus linguists, software engineers and
statisticians. Our aim is to carry out fundamental and applied
research in corpus linguistics, with a view to developing new
descriptions of the English language in use, and tools for the
extraction and management of knowledge in electronic databases.

For the past 3 years we have been working on a government-funded
project called SHARES (System of Hypermatrix Analysis, Retrieval,
Evaluation and Summarisation), the aim of which is to test the
hypothesis that similar patterns of lexical repetition are
sufficiently maintained across differently authored documents on
similar topics to support a high-performance retrieval engine.

We have developed an intertextual mechanism for the identification and
ranking of documents in terms of their relatedness to one or more
exemplar texts.  The SHARES approach is novel in taking the degree of
Lexical Cohesion between texts as the primary criterion for document
similarity.

We have produced an online demo system and user guide, and would
appreciate your feedback:

	 http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/sharesguide/

This demo system uses a small subset of the US TDT2 (Topic Detection
and Tracking) corpus, with 11 topics with 3 English articles on each
topic.  It allows the comparison of article pairs or of 1 article with
all other articles in the test corpus.  Stemming and weighting options
are available.  This is a cut-down version of our full SHARES
software, designed for faster online access.

A feedback form is provided on our website
(http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/sfeedback.shtml) for your use. You may
send comments by email to webmaster @ rdues.liv.ac.uk if you prefer.

Thank you in advance

Andrew Kehoe
Research and Development Unit for English Studies
University of Liverpool, UK


Subject Language: English (Language Code: ENG)

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