ORB Visualization
(soon)
At Paul's request, I have included a link to a Readware query tool that addresses the beadgames at
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/beads.htm.
That link is:
http://www.readware.com/ken/beadgames/knini.htm
Readware technology is a semantic classification technology that can be used to inquire into, and dynamically link "information" in texts, in many different ways.
To see how it works: (click on the above URL)
a. enter 'mathematics
learning' as a topic into the edit box and press the button [Show responses]
b. Click on the title of the
page in the result summary --to see the page with highlighting.
c. Examine the semantic quality of the hits. Press the black-right arrow symbol on the highlighting to go to the next context. Where there is no error there are no more hits on that page.
This exercise will show an example of the precision and recall of Readware and it also shows a little why Readware obtains richer results than IR (Information Retrieval)-theoretic-techniques. [*]
d. Press New Query to
enter an entirely new query. Experiment
freely.
I do not think the categories make any sense in this instance but the probes and issues and some topics may be interesting. [*]
For example, check the probe "problems/failures" and click [Add to query] then click Show Responses to see all documents that mention some problems or failures.
You can experiment with combining the knowledge functions to find appropriate linkages represented by the functions but this also may take more than casual search-use of the tool and require some hints or other documentation about the using query language for analysis.
The underlying methods are contextual but it is not SQL and has no NLP. I can be reached in the evenings at 352-371-5931 for some personal support in using it, for those that are interested.
On the summary page, you can click the folder to open a tree. In the tree, I have listed the source link and the results of the Readware analysis. Click on the folder or words to open the result. Listed are the top few categories and main topics identified by Readware within the texts.
Some general notes on usage:
This query tool uses Javascript and DHTML so your browser should be set to allow scripts.
Once a menu is activated click on it and then off of it to make it disappear.
When there is a black right arrow-head at the end of the highlighted item, you can click it to jump to the next spot in the text.
The function [Research this set] on the result pages allows you to enter a new query to that set of results.
Finally, I did not test all the scripts that I cobbled together from another instance- so clear the page to clear the scripts and do not expect all of them to function. Most of these are not necessary here and normally would be removed from the configurable menus as Readware is a completely programmable infrastructure. I noticed that some of them would not function or not make sense. For example, if you try to search in German by clicking the link in the search preferences, you will not find this ad-hoc collection available for access from there.
I also have a very interesting JAVA interface that could be used on this collection to produce more specific topics and categories for correlating the information on the pages; if there is any interest, you can send me a message or give me a shout.
Cheers,
Ken Ewell