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Project Pocket GopherConversational Learning Agent

TeamJosh Jones

Philip Little (Lead)

Tiffany Takahara

AdvisorDr. Rylander

Industry RepresentativeMs. Glenna Van Duzer

Harland Financial Solutions

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Underview(appropriate for a gopher)

• Review

• Progress Update

• New Tasks

• Present Issues/Concerns

• Conclusions

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Review

• Vision: Design a program which can converse normally with a human.

• Scope: Program which can parse written language, classify it meaningfully, and present a grammatical breakdown.

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Project Update• Website updated. (Honestly, its not that hard).

• TOPs 1.0 Approved

• Completed Word Graph

• Tool Research- more success!

• CFG algorithm complete!– Earley parsing algorithm modified to encode

semantic parse tree information.

• Demo

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Projected Tasks

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Present Issues/Concerns

• Combining GUI and WordGraph• Filling CLA vocabulary

• Ambiguity of English Grammar

• Rumor::= Next month is March

• Compilers lack of time | poor grades

• ProgrammingLanguages _ Compilers.

• PLAsst PLAsst PLQstion

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Milestone TableNumber Description Original

DatePreviousDate

PresentDate

1 Product Approval 10/04/04 10/04/04 10/08/04

2 Plan 0.9 10/25/04 11/05/04 11/05/04

3 Plan Approval 11/12/04 11/12/04 11/12/04

4 Word Design, Hash Table, and win32 prototype complete.

11/15/04 11/15/04 11/15/04

5 Final Chat Window 12/01/04 12/01/04 12/01/04

6 Design Release 12/06/04 12/10/04 12/10/04

7 Lexeme Graph Complete

1/10/05 1/10/05 2/1/05

8 Lexeme Browser Complete

1/15/05 1/15/05 2/1/05

9 CFG Class Complete 1/25/05 1/25/05 2/10//05

10 TOP’s Approval 02/14/05 02/14/05 02/14/05

11 Grammar Parser Complete

2/20/05 2/20/05 2/20/05

12 User Docs Complete 3/1/05 3/1/05 3/1/05

13 Prototype Release 04/04/05 04/04/05 04/04/05

14 Founder’s Day 04/07/05 04/07/05 04/07/05

15 Final Report 04/25/05 04/25/05 04/25/05

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Conclusions

• Back on schedule!

• Focus: Combining Segments.

• Focus: Compilers and Programming Languages.

• Focus: Focus. /*The sparky production*/

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Questions?

“Heh heh. Gopher? What Gopher?”

“Gopher…The other white meat!”