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text conversion program

2000-11-05
2000-11-29
  • Jeffrey Bridge

    Jeffrey Bridge - 2000-11-05

    I'll do the text conversion program for you. I've had a sourceforge account for a long time, but I haven't actually used it yet; what should I do to start working on this?

     
    • David Whitten

      David Whitten - 2000-11-29

      Wow. I was expecting E-mail.
      I forgot to check the Forums.
      Go to the File download area, and
      look at the text for the first book
      of the Oz series.

      What we want is to get the data so it is one
      sentence per line. As you can tell, I have started
      doing some of this by hand.
      I plan to upload the rest of the first 14 Oz books
      to the files area as well.
      Ultimately, the idea is that we want to have a web page connecting the text of the books to a separate page for each sentence, stating the facts that we can derive about OZ from that sentence.

      I don't know what to do about quoted sentences.
      Usually they involve sentence fragments, but they may have several sentences.  What I have done
      currently is put them all on one line.
      Perhaps the linked 'content' page will have the
      sentences broken down and then have those sentences point to new pages that have the meaning of them.  That makes sense from a linguistic point of view, because people say things that aren't necessary currently true, but which they think are true.

      Anyway, I hope you haven't gotten a new project
      by now, I definitely appreciate your help...

      David

       

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