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Revision: 214
          http://assorted.svn.sourceforge.net/assorted/?rev=214&view=rev
Author:   yangzhang
Date:     2008-01-03 03:19:34 -0800 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008)

Log Message:
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some documentation

Modified Paths:
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    movie-lookup/trunk/README

Added Paths:
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    movie-lookup/trunk/TODO

Modified: movie-lookup/trunk/README
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--- movie-lookup/trunk/README	2008-01-03 11:18:26 UTC (rev 213)
+++ movie-lookup/trunk/README	2008-01-03 11:19:34 UTC (rev 214)
@@ -4,4 +4,12 @@
   amount of information in a printable view. Copy the plain-text body of this
   page into `hbo.txt`.
 
-- Run `hbo.bash`, which uses `lookup.bash`, which uses `movie-lookup`.
+- Run `hbo.bash`, which uses `MovieLookup.scala` and `lookup.bash`, which uses
+  `movie-lookup` and `MovieLookup.class`.
+
+- You can view the results directly, or you can use Viewer to filter out all
+  the schedule entries under a certain rating
+
+- To just get the ratings for some movies, just run `lookup.bash` and pipe in
+  the data; the rated movies will come back on stdout (ratings are prefixed,
+  delimited by " --- ")

Added: movie-lookup/trunk/TODO
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--- movie-lookup/trunk/TODO	                        (rev 0)
+++ movie-lookup/trunk/TODO	2008-01-03 11:19:34 UTC (rev 214)
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+- handle numbers, eg "5th Day of Peace" == "The Fifth Day of Peace"
+- handle partial titles, eg "Dodgeball" == "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story"
+- handle other articles, eg "Inconvenient Truth" == "An Inconvenient Truth"
+- suggest close matches, eg
+  - "Good as It Gets" == "As Good as It Gets" (interactive?)
+  - "Highway Men" == "Highwaymen"
+- deal with multiple matches, eg "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967, 1983)
+  - if one of them is obscure (has no ratings), rank it higher
+- extract other information (year, number of ratings, etc)
+- incorporate number of ratings in the rating, somehow
+- adopt other engines/web-based search techniques? (eg "Good Evening Mr. Wallenberg")


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