[jdev] what would you think of this as an SoC project?
jehan
jehan at zemarmot.net
Thu Mar 27 03:54:17 CDT 2008
Hello,
for info, what do you mean by "analyse chat conversations"? Statistics
analysis? Or intelligent analysis of the content (so an AI project)?
By the way, about IM logs, I often thought that it would be nice to be able
to store your chat history on servers. Indeed I often want to retrieve some
conversation but I am not always on the same place, the same computer or
simply I use different clients for tests (so even on the same computer I get
lost to "where" is this interesting discussion I had with someone).
Sometimes also I have to use clients with no log support, or I don't want to
store them locally though I don't want them lost.
In fact, it would be to XMPP what IMAP is to the emails and enable to
separate the content (chat history) from the reader (Jabber client), though
they will still have to process the data for displaying, search, etc. What
do you think of this?
Jehan
Greg Wilson writes:
> Two grad students at U of Toronto have been working this term on a tool to
> analyze chat conversations (IRC, IM, etc.) and cluster messages into
> threads. They presented their work this afternoon, and will be doing
> another presentation on April 9; I think it has promise, especially since
> they're using incremental algorithms that would be well-suited to
> real-time execution. They're not going to carry on with it (they have
> thesis topics picked out, and this ain't it :-), but the long-term goal
> would be to build something that could plug into various clients, or be
> used to process logs.
>
> Would this make a good project for XMPP SoC? It would require a student
> who already has some understanding of IR, clustering algorithms, and NLP,
> but it could help make large chat spaces more usable. I'd be willing to
> mentor...
>
> Thanks,
> Greg Wilson
> http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gvwilson
>
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