thesis2/abstract.tex

   1 When looking for an activity in a bar or trying to find a good movie it often
   2 seems difficult to find complete and correct information about the event.
   3 Hyperleap tries to solve this problem of bad information giving by bundling the
   4 information from various sources and invest in good quality checking.
   5 Currently information retrieval is performed using site-specific crawlers, when
   6 a crawler breaks the feedback loop for fixing it contains different steps and
   7 requires someone with a computer science background. A crawler generation
   8 system has been created that uses directed acyclic word graphs to assist
   9 solving the feedback loop problem. The system allows users with no particular
  10 computer science background to create, edit and test crawlers for \textit{RSS}
  11 feeds. In this way the feedback loop for broken crawlers is shortened, new
  12 sources can be incorporated in the database quicker and, most importantly, the
  13 information about the latest movie show, theater production or conference will
  14 reach the people looking for it as fast as possible.