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01/04/2009. Michael Khanimov Amir Taub Roi Oron. The Concept. Trivipedia gadget offers you 2 interactive games: Classic trivia: match the person's name to his description. Friends vs Seinfeld: recognize where the quote is taken from.
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01/04/2009 Michael Khanimov Amir Taub Roi Oron
The Concept Trivipedia gadget offers you 2 interactive games: • Classic trivia: match the person's name to his description. • Friends vs Seinfeld: recognize where the quote is taken from. All the questions are auto generated from Wikipedia database.
Architecture Downloading dump… Parsing… Google Appengine TAU nova server Rating Post entry Dump Name
Architecture – Cont. Question Statistics Country IP address Picture App engine iGoogle gadget
New Features • Algorithm - Level of Difficulties: • Recognizing: the user’s country by IP. • Categorizing: the different people by their nationality. • Matching: between user’s contry and the national categories. • Retrieving: person’s rating from Yahoo! • Machine learning: saving former success rate for each person. • Retrieving picture from Google • TAU nova server • Progress Bar • Parsing “Friends vs. Seinfeld” quotes: • Encapsulating characters’ names by creating names bank.
Technologies • Google App Engine (JSON objects) • GQL Database • Yahoo! Web search API • Crontab on TAU nova server • Retrieving picture from Google search engine • Google client location API
Challenges • Many hard “starts” of languages and technologies. • Parsing Wikipedia’s xml. • Creating Level of difficulties and choosing interesting people. • Creating a friendly, simple and usable GUI. • Google app engine limits.