Dear Webware users, I've been investigating how to solve a data search and display problem for a web site I'm working on, and thought that using webware (or something like it) might do the trick. Since I don't know much about this system, can you hazard a guess at whether I ought to investigate this further --i.e, does the set-up below seem possible?
++++++++++++ On the site, the web user asks a ficticious "Doctor" a question (plain-english sentence), using an HTML form. A script filters out the stop-words, and then searches among a database of hundreds of ready-made answers, and chooses just *one* that is the best match of text words and keywords, and displays the full text of *only* that one as the answer; so that there is a dialog set up between the user and the 'doctor'. (A refinement, also, could be that the web user may sign the original question, "wondering" or "just curious", or a name, "john", and the Doctor's reply can start, "Dear Wondering" in true Dear Abby style). Note that the result is intended to be a cross between Dear Abby and the I Ching; ironic and humorous mismatches are fine; so exact and accurate answers to the question are not required. This is not a site about cancer of the colon. Or at least, not directly. ++++++++++++ Any thoughts or leads appreciated. I know HTML and some javascript, and I'm willing to move to Linux or MacOS X. Steven Rowat MacOS 9.2, G3/233 Replies off-list please, since I'm not presently a subscriber. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - web site: <http://www.rowatworks.com> --original writing, science, and music --on-line excerpts and downloads of completed works mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
