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Project - ECIGS
Team Name: Techmint
Solution Name: ECIGS (Educational Content Identification and Grabbing System)
 
Current Scenario Targeted:
Most of the time search results returned by search engines are irrelevant for the user. In response of a simple query a search engine returns links to millions of web-pages many of which are generally unsolicited and useless for the user. To determine the usability of each page, the user has to open each web-page, has to go through the content and has to decide its relevancy and usability. Further if required, the user has to save it for future reference and has to look for and download other related contents. This is a time consuming and cumbersome process. But, there is no any alternative solution available.
 
So, there are three major problems in this process of information search and retrieval-
1. to minimize the number of search results in response of a user query
2. to establish the Relevancy and Usability of a web page content
3. to automate this whole process and of grabbing of relevant web pages found.
So, ECIGS provides Solution to all these problems.
a. Difficulties in Current Scenario
Incurrent scenario, all the processes of information search and retrieval are manual. User has to dedicate lot of time for searching and grabbing / downloading the contents. It requires a lot of labor and dedication.
b. How things would be with your solution
ECIGS provides novel search facilities that makes searching of content very easy and increase the efficiency in finding relevant and useful content. Some of those search facilities are: 1. Summary Search 2. Hierarchy Precision Search 3. Theme Search 5.Advanced Search Options
ECIGS has a novel model of manual clustering and tagging search results by a web service called: Community Categorized Hierarchy Link Database Search Service.
 
NLP based Content Identification Grammar
On of the core feature of ECIGS is its ability to parse text and recognize meanings of the text. It uses complex identification grammar to identify context of words and phrases. It resolves the ambiguities present in natural language text.
ECIGS does not search contents and identify its usability based only on keyword matching which has been proved to be misleading and erroneous. Rather, it uses linguistic theories, statistical records of usage of words and phrases in the textual documents for search and usability finding.
 
Other features of ECIGS include:
Auto scheduling of content grabbing
Auto scheduling of processing
Auto Revisit Policy
Better management of the grabbed content
Project’s Impact
1. This Application will change the way we currently search relevant contents in the Internet. Using the artificial grammar, it will search for the most suitable content from the web-space.
2. This system will reduce the time and effort by the user for searching for a relevant and useful content.
This system will be useful for all types of users and will specially be beneficial for students, researchers and other knowledge-seekers in collecting useful content of their interest and will proved to be a tool for assisting in providing Education for All.
 
Team Members
1. Sumit Kumar Pranav
  U.P Tech Consultancy , Lucknow
2. Shivanand Thakur
  Army Institute of Technology
 

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