Author Archive for corrine

the opposite of indifference

My final project uses a regular expression to get the two words immediately following “I love” and “I hate” in a Google blogsearch to display side-by-side as bedfellows in the opposite of indifference. Link.
I used php and ajax to build the pages. There’s a bit of code to get everything working, so I’ve pasted […]

final

For my final, I’m going to continue working on the love/hate (opposite of indifference) and get the regex working a lot better. Here are some improvements that need to be made:
- remove all odd characters
- recognize prepositions and grab following words
Here’s the comp:
http://itp.nyu.edu/~acb363/dwd/lovehate.jpg

Wordnet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpli
Simpli is a good example of a program that takes advantage of Wordnet. Basically, it’s a search engine that offers semantic breakdowns for search words. For example, if you search for “java” it will clarify if you mean “java” as in the delicious beverage or “java” as in the programming language that causes you to […]

the love/hate

http://itp.nyu.edu/~acb363/dwd/test.php
I created a regex to grab the words following “I love” and “I hate” through Google blogsearch in PHP. I’m combining this with my AJAX midterm and hope to create a visual representation similar to this: http://phasetwo.org/post/a-better-tag-cloud.html
Stay tuned …

Children On Prozac

I took the “Children with Hangovers” from Jonathan Lethem’s promiscuous materials site and used a regex to change “children with hangovers” to children on prozac.
program | text | text revised

Lana Turner Has Collapsed!

I took Frank O’Hara’s Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!) and made it possible to replace Lana Turner with any modern-day celebrity. It’s amazing to see how easy it is to make it more modern just by changing that name. It would be interesting to do this to a variety of texts and see the results […]

Oz, Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Crimson Room

My first ever computer game was a version of the Wizard of Oz on several floppy disks, that was an interactive fiction game. The game closely followed the original story and you had to figure your way out of each situation based on the book. The most difficult part of the game was getting the […]


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