Image for a Mid-Dec Prototype (probably too ambitious)
If we had more time, I'd recommend we jointly build this pair of demos.
Demo A. Multi-faceted Classification System (MFCS)
This is built and hosted by Dan as a Java Web app. Functionally,
it takes the URI of an article on your web site, and returns LTM that
can describe it in a topic map. It also builds a log that can
support the equivalent of your current on-line search logic.
Long-term, this demo would evolve into something we might call your Article Tagging System (ATS). It initially has these conceptual parts:
- Query System - A JSP that returns article IDs based on a set of pull downmenus
- ATS log file - this is sole data used by the above - gets filtered to find article IDs
- Update System - A JSP that extends log and returns LTM using the same menus
- Converts posted pull-down forms into LTM for Articles
- (Later on, reading of an article can default the form picks)
- An ontology - PSI-sets in JSPs which cover a set of facets
- 1200 or so companies
- 150 or so countries
- 40 or so industries
- 25 or so "menu topics" now defined
- Others TBD - much expands "menu topics"
- LTM-generator utility
- Converts ontology PSI-sets into equivalent LTM files
- ??? Converts log file into MFCS associations (Q1 followup?)
- ??? TM4J as local Java storage (no time; but current assumption)
Demo B. Omnigator 1.4 Presentation of the Generated LTM
This is built by Miles and Dan in parallel, on their own PC-resident
versions. Miles will take the lead in using it as a prototype
testbed to exlore and explain (to Creditsights personnel) his
vision of a future production level equivalent. Dan will advise
and assist with the LTM from Demo A, emulating the future ATS
output. Demo B shows how it gets used, and initially plays these
conceptual roles:
- Emulated Storage System for future ATS (fills in for A.6 in demo)
- MFCS topics (entities only; no associations)
- Article topics (entities only; no associations)
- Article/MFCS associations (duplicates A.2)
- Testbed for enhancements to ATS design
- Current search powers duplicated by Demo A
- Could be improved later by better ATS, TM4J
- NEW search powers explored using stuff below
- Free services built into current Omnigators
- visualization of ATS (useful for training staff)
- Tolog queries (also available in TM4J)
- ??? Validation (no time; and not needed?)
- News Item Topics (unpredictable, ad hoc associations)
- Article topic linked to News Item topic
- News item can come in from RSS feed (or analysts)
- Find key news related to "My companies"
- One compelling new power TMs facilitate
- Tear sheets get a list of "recent news" links
- Other associations (wide open; use your vision)
- new links showing compelling benefits of TMs
- article-to-article (cross-links)
- article-to-??? (other new-topics in A.4)
- this area is main event for Q1 '04 expansion
- you can expand this independently, once set up
Part C: Issues to discuss more for January (optional follow-up work)
- What TM engine(s) to adopt?
- TM4J is free, and would work
- Omnigator 2.0 supports RDF
- TM4JScript might be helpful
- What UI would best enable future searches
- GUI based, via pull-down and links
- Pre-compiled Queries Users select
- Dialog based Q&A (like Ask Jeeves)
- Voice based dialog Q&A (Glitzie option)
- How Much Expansion of ATS?
- Auto-tagging of new articles
- Auto-linking of RSS news, etc.
- Legacy problem: tagging old articles
- Role for Lexikos in Q1?
- Expand Demo A into production-level ATS code?
- Supplier of WORDS (scripting system for TM4J)
- Others TBDL