NDLI: A plausible ancestor generator an experiment with heuristics, screen scraping and geolocs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Newman, K.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Fac. of Comput. Inf. Syst. & Appl. Commun., Higher Colleges of Technol., Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Newman, K.)
Abstract	This paper demonstrates methods for creating a server application with the task of generating a plausible family tree based on the user. The application does not try to be factual, merely plausible. In creating this app a number of server based techniques are employed to solve the various problems. 1 - Heuristics were defined to simulate plausible birth and death dates, and also the parent's age at the birth of the each generation. 2 - Screen scraping techniques were employed to harvest names from name databases which did not offer an api. 3 - Google places api was used to select a plausible birthplace for each ancestors. 4 - Wikibots were used to retrieve a plausible occupation plausible for each ancestor. The purpose of this study is to investigate how a variety of servers-based methods can be employed within a single application to provide a complex result which appears intelligent, has a certain level of semantic credibility, is fun, engaging for the user and appears entirely plausible.
Sponsorship	IEEE United Arab Emirates Sect.
Starting Page	254
Ending Page	258
File Size	1254237
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1109/CTIT.2013.6749513
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-12-11
Publisher Place	United Arab Emirates
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Semantic Web Google Geology Semantics Geneology Historical Geographic Information Systems Generators Feeds History Wikibots Screen-scraping
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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