Final Project in Search and Filtering of Information

Your program should include the following 3 components:
1. Fetcher: get as input a name of a person and fetches the top (50-100) pages from Google (or MSN or yahoo) that contain this name.
2. Extract the following types of entities and relationships from the pages that you fetched:
     a. names of people connected to this person
     b. addresses or locations related to this person
     c. education of the person
     d. Other "interesting information about the person - this open ended, and you can choose whatever information you define as "interesting"
3. Present the information you collected in step 2 in a nice and friendly way.

The project is fairly open ended, and clearly it is not easy and it is a real challenge. 
I expect you to do some research by examining a few names before you start designing the fetcher and the extractor.


The grade will be given based on the following criteria:
1. Ability to work with multiple names (and not something tailored to work with just 2-3 names)
2. Accuracy of the extraction results
3. Clarity of the final report that summarizes your findings (the report is generated automatically)


You will get extra credit for the features:

1. Number of extraction patterns supported 
2. The GUI of the application
3. Stability of the application (crashes are unacceptable)


Last submission date: Sept 15th 2006

What do you need to submit:
1. A document describing in detail the architecture of your system
2. A zip file that contains your main python program and associated files needed to run it
3. An explanation how to run the program

Where to submit:
Send items 1- 3 above to ronenbiu@gmail.com (Item 1 and 2 need to attcahments, and item 3 can be just inside your email 
message)

Good Luck! 

Ronen