ashurbanipal.web

Java Servlet-based interface to the Ashurbanipal data.

Exploring Project Gutenberg with natural language processing.

DESCRIPTION

This project supplies the processing capacity to the ashurbanipal.web.ui front-end. The project uses Apache Wink for no very good reason, but includes four resources supplying five URLs:

1. FileMetadataLookup.java

   • /lookup: Query the Project Gutenberg metadata to provide a list of matching texts. Query processing, idiotic as it is, is based loosely on the book Introduction to Information Retrieval, by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze.

   • /lookup/{etext_no}: Return the metadata associated with a single Project Gutenberg text. This is needed when using a URL similar to http://dpg.crsr.net/#773 or the forward/back history support.

2. FileCombinationRecommendations.java, FileStyleRecommendations.java, and FileTopicRecommendations.java: Provide lists of recommendations for a supplied etext number.

   • /combination

   • /style

   • /topic

Data for the application is stored in tab-separated text files, for easy reading by the application on start-up. While the application is running, it is all stored in memory to improve response time.

SEE ALSO

• ashurbanipal.web.ui: Javascript client UI to the ashurbanipal.web interfaces.

• ashurbanipal: Applications to generate the data set on which recommendations are based.

AUTHOR

Tommy M. McGuire wrote this.

LICENSE

GNU GPLv2 or later.