A comment or two on the feedback from Lou Burnard below.
The software we are demoing works on the text within the page it is given,
taking account of the frequency and position of terms. In fact all the
words and phrases he mentioned (including 'child porn') occur within his
home page. We certainly dont generate phrases that are not there. The keys
selected are not very specific in this example, I think because his home
page does discuss lots of things in passing and we have not particularly
tuned our selection to ignore Web phrases like 'Home Page'.
I really do not know why Lou got 'Page under construction' from
www.intext.com.au. We had a server problem at about 6pm our time. (Thats
9am UK and 1am USA West Coast), but we rebooted and we have been running
all night.
Also of the pages that were ran, I know that we had a couple of problems.
We have copies of these and are chasing them up. My apologies to those
people.
Richard Jones
VP Engieering
InTEXT Systems
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
From: Lou Burnard, INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
TO: (unknown), INTERNET:[log in to unmask]
DATE: 5/6/97 8:36 PM
RE: intext pulls plug
|> If this is a problem that anyone is interested in following up, you
might
|> like to check out the two content analysis techonlogy demos on our Web
|> site. In both cases they accept a URL and return either a set of
keywords
|> and phrases, or a hyperlinked summary. See
|>
|> http://www.intext.com.au
|I just tried your Precison keyword generator on my home page at:-
||
|http://www.poulter.demon.co.uk/
|
|'Home page' was one of the keywords recommended along with some overly
vague
|ones ('page', 'web page', 'published', 'open letter', 'co.uk' etc) and a
|worrying one ('child porn'). In fact if I was the litigious sort, I might
be
|more than a little upset with that last one :-)
I just tried to access this demo (mainly to make sure that my site has
plenty
of child porn on it too) and found that it is now "under construction". Ah
well....
Lou
