BYU Craigslist Alerter

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BYU Craigslist Alerter

• Oliver Nina, Meher Shaikh
• Andrew Zitzelberger

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Motivation

• People want to spend less money

• Craigslist has become popular

• We want to find ads fast and effortless

• We don't want to read every ad

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The Challenge
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The Challenge
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Our Solution

• A system that can read the ads

• It will find the ads we want

• We will get notified by email

• The email will link to the ads

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Demo

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Description

• AskOntos

• Craigslist Crawler

• Ontos tool

• Sparql

• Mailer

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Craigslist Crawler

• A python script

• Crawls every ad given a link

• Creates one single page with all ads

• It crawls only the a depth of 1

• Could work in any OS

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From AskOntos to Form

• AskOntos selects an ontology

• We look study the ontology selected

• We create a form based on the ontology

• We translate form input into sparql

• We run the selected processes

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Conclusion

• Our prototype is a proof of concept

• Our systems allows free form queries

• It is targeted for novice and experts

• Simple, and efficient

• Handles multiple domains

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Future Work

• Work on the php script

• Save alert requests

• Comparison against similar systems

• Create a product to be sold

• Get rich and famous

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Acknowledgments

• Dr. Liddle for php script

• Dr. embley direction and ideas

• Andrew for helping with BYU tools

• Everyone for their ontologies

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Questions?

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