NFACT (News Filtering Communication Tool)

This program is an implementation of my honours project for the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
The project is to integrate an intelligent agent into a News Client which in this case is JavaNews.

 The program sets up a User Profile which is used to retrieve articles and filter them into different categories using some simple heuristics provided by Jess (Java Expert System Shell).
These categories include:

1 Flames (articles of a derogatory nature) which have a symbol of a flame next to them.
2 "Me Too" articles which are articles that are agreeing with a posted article without contributing anything to the discussion.
3 Finally examining the formality of the articles by scanning for slang words, casual phrases and swear words.

Relevant Project Links

Jess (Java Expert System Shell)
JavaNews Client
Stevesoft Perl Regular Expressions Library
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Daryl Moulder's Home Page

News

New Version of NFACT released 13 Dec 2002.
New version now works with the google search engine (www.google.com).

The program can be downloaded from here.

The program RMI Partial Implementation code can be downloaded from here.

The program RMI Partial Implementation code (for winzip) can be downloaded from here.

The stevesoft perl regular expressions library needed to run the program can be downloaded from  here (shareware version).
 

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at dmoulder@insect.sd.monash.edu.au

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