thesis2/abstract.tex

   1 When looking for an activity in a bar or trying to find a good movie to watch
   2 it often seems difficult to find complete information about the event without
   3 empty or wrong data.  Hyperleap tries to solve problem of bad information
   4 giving by bundling the information from various sources and invest in good
   5 quality checking.  Currently information retrievel is performed using
   6 site-specific crawlers, when a crawler breaks the feedback loop for fixing the
   7 it contains of different steps and requires someone with a computer science
   8 background.  A crawler generation system has been created that uses directed
   9 acyclic word graphs that assist solving the feedback loop problem.  The system
  10 allows users with no particular computer science background to create, edit and
  11 test crawlers for \textit{RSS} feeds.  In this way the feedback loop for broken
  12 crawlers is shortened, new sources can be incorporated in the database quicker
  13 and, most importantly, the information about the latest movie show, theater
  14 production or conference will reach the people looking for it as fast as
  15 possible.