1. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 1February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Project Pocket Gopher Conversational Learning Agent Team Josh Jones Philip Little (Lead) Tiffany Takahara Advisor Dr. Rylander Industry Representative Ms. Glenna Van Duzer Harland Financial Solutions

2. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 2February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Underview (appropriate for a gopher) Review Progress Update New Tasks Present Issues/Concerns Conclusions

3. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 3February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Review Vision: Design a program which can converse normally with a human. Scope: Program which can parse written language, classify it meaningfully, and present a grammatical breakdown.

4. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 4February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Project Update Website updated. (Honestly, its not that hard). TOPs 1.0 Approved Completed Word Graph Tool Research- more success! CFG algorithm complete! –Earley parsing algorithm modified to encode semantic parse tree information. Demo

5. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 5February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Projected Tasks

6. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 6February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering

7. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 7February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Present Issues/Concerns Combining GUI and WordGraph Filling CLA vocabulary Ambiguity of English Grammar Rumor::= Next month is March Compilers  lack of time | poor grades ProgrammingLanguages _ Compilers. PLAsst  PLAsst PLQstion

8. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 8February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Milestone Table NumberDescriptionOriginal Date Previous Date Present Date 1Product Approval10/04/04 10/08/04 2Plan 0.910/25/0411/05/04 3Plan Approval11/12/04 4Word Design, Hash Table, and win32 prototype complete. 11/15/04 5Final Chat Window12/01/04 6Design Release12/06/0412/10/04 7Lexeme Graph Complete 1/10/05 2/1/05 8Lexeme Browser Complete 1/15/05 2/1/05 9CFG Class Complete1/25/05 2/10//05 10TOP’s Approval02/14/05 11Grammar Parser Complete 2/20/05 12User Docs Complete3/1/05 13Prototype Release04/04/05 14Founder’s Day04/07/05 15Final Report04/25/05

9. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 9February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Conclusions Back on schedule! Focus: Combining Segments. Focus: Compilers and Programming Languages. Focus: Focus. /*The sparky production*/

10. CS-EE 480 Spring 2005 10February, 2005 University of Portland School of Engineering Questions? “Heh heh. Gopher? What Gopher?” “Gopher…The other white meat!”