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The Power project

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This case study focuses on a research project to design and develop language technology software. While computers are very effective at storing lots of information and they can generate text, it is a challenge to tell a computer to get information out of a database and to present it as text in a flexible way that suits individual needs. This is the challenge the project tried to solve.

The outcome of the project was a concept called Dynamic Document Delivery (DDD). DDD is an approach for generating World Wide Web pages directly from a database to suit an individual’s interests, level of knowledge (including what the user has just learnt), and even the language they speak. No one has to write the web pages, the software generates them directly from the database.

The research project set out to design a DDD system that would generate web pages from a database of objects in the Powerhouse Museum. This was the Power project. This case study will examine:

  • What the project was all about.
  • Who developed the software.
  • What problems the research tried to solve.
  • What goals the project had.
  • How the software was developed and designed.

This case study includes transcripts from an interview with Associate Professor Robert Dale, Macquarie University and Dr Cécile L. Paris, CSIRO.

Click here to find out more about language technology.

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Case studies developed by the Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate and supported by the Multicultural Programs Unit of the NSW Department of Education and Training in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum
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