I think you should get in contact with the Tracker and Zeitgeist developers Tracker providers content indexing and semantic relations while Zeitgeist does contextual relevancy :) Please don't hesitate to visit us at #tracker on GIMPNET and #zeitgeist on Freenode Cheers Seif
2010/3/21 SUMIT RANJAN <sumit.n...@gmail.com> > Hi.. > I am Sumit, third year Computer Science student from India. I am very much > enthusiastic about contributing for gnome, in google SoC'10. I have come up > with a project idea, which I wish to work on. > > Description: I would like to develop a "User friendly Command Search Tool" > which gives users facility to search for a specific command offline. The > user can give a text input related to the command. The tool will generate a > list of commands with description, sorted based on relevance. > Currently, to search for a command we can do man -k or apropos or whatis , > which searches for keywords in a set of database files containing short > description of system commands and displays the result in standard output. > But the results obtained are plenteous or sometimes empty and are > alphabetically sorted. So it becomes very painful to find the expected > command from a huge list of results. > Take for an example, > when I search for "list content of directories" ==> empty > result > "file compression" ==> > empty result > "compression" ==> 15 > results(not sorted by relevance) > Benefits: This tool can be very useful for newbies who are not familiar > with linux commands. In such cases they have to google to get the command > they want. But in case of offline users they have no choice but to look into > linux reference manuals. > > To Do: 1) Ranking the results based on relevance (developing a ranking > algorithm) > 2) Making a GUI for the tool, which displays the results in a > user friendly manner, categorizing the results. > 3) Use data from linux forums to estimate the popularity and > usage of command. > 4) Do natural language processing of the input text, to give > good search results. > > These are initial thoughts of my idea. I would very much appreciate, if I > could receive some feedback on my idea and whether this can be feasible for > google SoC proposal. I am also looking for mentors, who might be interested > in this idea. > > With regards, > Sumit Ranjan > 3rd Year, CSE > Email Id: sumit.n...@gmail.com > Mob No.: +91-9952842678 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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