Ideas for Perl Project

Got any ideas?

[adni18]

Hi. I would like to do a (rather) large perl project, with lots of programming variety. Any ideas?

[eurotrash]

Is this a free service you are willing to offer to a WebmasterWorld subscriber :-)

If so, sticky me.

[adni18]

Sure. I'll offer it to anyone who wants it. I just need some ideas tho.

[adni18]

I meant that i am looking forward to writing some scripts and publishing them on the internet. kind of like Dada Mail (dadamail.org). Any ideas for something like that (just a project I would make from scratch, and offer on the internet)?

[volatilegx]

Here's an idea:

Write a script that will take the content from any page and rewrite it to paraphrase the original with approximately the same amount of text.

[adni18]

You mean like, by replacing the phrase "in order to" with "to"?

[jatar_k]

not so much I wouldn't think

hehe, volatilegx, you're a bad man ;)

paraphrase

1. A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.
2. The restatement of texts in other words as a studying or teaching device.

so your script needs to understand how to interpret text and then restate it

[volatilegx]

Yes, I am a bad, bad boy :)

I would personally pay bucks for a flexible script like this. Especially if it was written as a perl module.

I understand there is at least one software program that already does this, although I'm not exactly sure what all its features are.

As a perl module, it would be like gold.

[moltar]

I think it would be more than gold :)

[volatilegx]

Actually, you can use any translation service to do something similar. Take a document, translate it from English to Spanish, and then retranslate the Spanish version back into English, and you'll have a paraphrased document. It may not read quite right, but it would be good enough for search engine purposes.

Now, if only I could find a translation service that would let me run thousands of queries a day ;)