====== Minutes ======

====Summer====
===18th June - Tutor===
  * First meeting with Patrick and Adrian.
  * Introduction to the CUPIDE system
  * To do: brainstorm on issues we are going to work on in the coming year
===27th July - Tutor===
  * More knowledge about the CUPIDE system
  * Some other possibilities:  
    - Research on Wikipedia coredump
    - FYP management system
===17th August - Tutor===
  * Feasibility of transitional text comparison         //- Difficult//
  * Feasibility of FYP management system    //- Simple, but not in accordance to our project's aim//


====September====
===3rd, Monday - Professor===
  * First meeting with Professors (co-supervisor: Prof. Jimmy Lee)
  * Target: Implement a integrated writting style analyzer/ grammer checker
  * To Start with: Statistical text analysis
  * 2 harddisks borrowed from department
===5th, Wednesday - Professor===
  * Start preparatory work
  * To do list for the coming 2-3 weeks: 
    - research on the internet existing text analysors and grammer checkers
    - comparison between these gadgets
    - list down all possible functions we may implement, in the form of specification document.
  * Recommended readings: Python (for text processing)
===10th, Monday - Tutor===
  * Summary of working target to Patrick
  * Tutor's recommended websites
  * Borrowed recommended books
  * To do: install Linux on harddisk
===12th, Wednesday - Professor===
  * quite some functions collected, should start implementing
  * start with the easiest one first, save pos tagging to the last
  * To do: build a web interface with at least a simple word count function
  * porf. king's advice: 
    - solve problems independently
    - ask for resources we need
    - apply data structures
===19th, Wednesday - Professor ===
  * implemented a simple web interface with word count function
  * To do: **text preprocessing** 
    - Base on the CUPIDE source code
    - Interpret text paragraph by paragraph  

====October====
===10th, Wednesday - Professor===
  * Implement the stemming function by using the Porter Algorithm
  * Provide options of pre-processing functions for users
  * Sort the unique word by different orders (e.g.Alphabetic order, Word frequency, etc.)
  * Make the web interface looks profession and visually pleasing
  * See reference from [[http://wordnet.princeton.edu/|WordNet]], [[http://www.textarc.org/|TextArc]] and [[http://www.lemurproject.org/|Lemur]]
===24th, Wednesday - Professor===
  * Creat a user friendly interface
  * Division of Labour (Interface & Functions)
  * Write Specification (Design & Technical)
  * Testing

====November====
====December====