CAPs Finder
See
http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/betaTools/capsfinder.shtml
Description
CAPs is abbreviation for capital letters.
This tool tries its best to recognize and find all the groups of capitalized words in the input text. However, it is very difficult to recognize correctly all the meaningful CAPs, especially the Capitalized words are interleaved with non-Capitalized words. If any user has a better algorithm and wants to share with us, we will implement it for you.
Pseudocode
- Obtain source text by URL or form user's local disk. If the text format is XML or HTML, strip off all the tags
- Chop the text into sentences
- Remove the first word of each sentence if it matches some criteria. For example, it matches "By ", "Again ", "Now " etc.
- For each subtext obtained above, chop them into sub-subtext using words such as "are", "is", "am", "have", "has", "weather", "|", "(" ... ....
- Apply pattern matching and other method to identify the CAPs
Way of Using
- Enter a valid URL in the URL field or enter a local path to upload the source text
- Click the "Submit" button
CGI Interface
If you want to use this tool from your web site, here is the CGI Interface:
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Note: You need to use attribute name/value pair: enctype="multipart/form-data" within the form tag because the tool was to designed to allow local file uploading even if you do not use this feature)
Here are the parameters:
| Parameter Name | Parameter Value | Control Type | Default | Description |
|---|
| source | url/local | radio button | url | Let user select input text (either a url or upload local html text) |
| texturl | | text | | A valid URL pointing plain text, html or xml document |
| localFile | | file | | The path to your local text file |
| freetext | | hidden | Y | Set the value to "Y" allow the tool to process HTML or XML by strop off all the tags |
| listdisp | 2 | select | 2 | display output in HTML format (the only format implemented currently |
Use CAPs Finder TAPoRware Tool in Your Web Page
You can add a button in your web page to list all the words in that page by call
TAPoRware cgi script.
Here is the code for the button interface:
<form method="post" name="textForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="_blank" action="http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/cgi-bin/prototype/tcapsfinder.cgi" onsubmit="document.textForm.texturl.value=document.location.href">
<input type="hidden" name="source" value="url" />
<input type="hidden" name="texturl" />
<input type="hidden" name="freetext" value="Y"/>
<input type="hidden" name="listdisp" value="2" />
<input type="submit" value="Find CAPs" />
</form>
Web Service Interface
Taporware provides web services to any non-benefit organizations. here is the taporware web services information:
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LianYan - 01 Jun 2007
