[sugar] Fwd: Journal fulltext search

[Ryan Pavlik]

The example Nadav has on the homepage shows keyword generation in 
addition to summarization, and a new version was just released in April, 
so it looks like it's maintained/under development again.

Ryan

Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> 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:
>   
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Walter Bender* <walter.bender at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com> >
>> Date: Jul 12, 2007 7:17 AM
>> Subject: Re: [sugar] Journal fulltext search
>> To: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de <mailto:bert at freudenbergs.de>>
>>
>> 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* < bert at freudenbergs.de 
>> <mailto:bert at freudenbergs.de>> 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 -
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