Minutes
- - Summer
  - September
  - October
  - November
  - December

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:
1. Research on Wikipedia coredump
2. 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:
1. research on the internet existing text analysors and grammer checkers
2. comparison between these gadgets
3. 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:
1. solve problems independently
2. ask for resources we need
3. apply data structures

19th, Wednesday - Professor

implemented a simple web interface with word count function
To do: text preprocessing
1. Base on the CUPIDE source code
2. 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 WordNet, TextArc and Lemur

24th, Wednesday - Professor

Creat a user friendly interface
Division of Labour (Interface & Functions)
Write Specification (Design & Technical)
Testing

November

December