Scaffold is a program under development to identify the topics mentioned in a piece of journalism as well as interpreting and presenting which lines contain data points, quotations, dates and/or times
Scaffold is intended to help users that are gathering information on a topic and therefore need to consume, and later reference, many text articles.
Oftentimes, the headline and search-result summary of an article does not inform a potential reader as to whether its content is relevent or new. Scaffold seeks to optimize the user's research time by aiding in the decision of which articles are worth their time to read.
Furthermore, Scaffold can be utilized if the user is composing a presentation or essay on the topic being researched. The Scaffold file is an easy way to find supporting quotes, events, and statistics as well as being a way to check the spelling of the proper nouns mentioned in the article.
Right now, all of the action is at: https://github.com/christina-hammer/Scaffold
About This Blog and the Person Writing It:
I have started this blog in the midst of developing version one of Scaffold.
I am a new grad with my B.S. in computer science and am the only member of the team. This blog is intended to help me track my progress and thoughts throughout the development of Scaffold.
I'm working with some unfamiliar technologies and a ton of new problem spaces. I anticipate that this will result in some blog posts containing cringe-worthy errors. Please bear with me if you notice any of these and feel free to give me a heads up. Or enjoy the build-up of dramatic irony as you watch me slowly realize how wrong I was.
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