EPUB higlighter helps independent authors market their books by finding suitable quotes to share in social media. The product includes generation of images containing a chosen quote plus the book cover.
Status: defunct.
Technologies employed: Scala, Factorie, scrimage, scalatra, spacy, xgboost.
Meaningful Interactions
System for Mamook Lapeep art installation
An art installation where the audience shares art with the artists.
This is a computer system allowing an art gallery visitor to interact with an installation using their smartphone. Open source at https://github.com/Textualization/mamook_lapeep.
Status: ready for deployment.
Technologies employed: Python, Flask, Javascript, redis, transitions.
Dynamic Narratives
Ebook Publishing
You take the skull in your hands and stare at it when, all of a sudden, you could swear that the skull winks at you.
A custom in-house EPUB generator for gamebooks (the type of branching narratives popularized by Choose your own adventure™ books) supporting bilingual gamebooks:
Gamebooks by PD: Proof-of-concept bilingual light horror stories by the author. Bilingual Spanish & English.
Una Historia de Cuatro Cocinas: COVID-19 training for Spanish speaking kitchen workers. In Spanish.
Status: available for purchase at Amazon Kindle.
Technologies employed: Scala, Scala parser combinators, Scalate
Automatic Reports from Spreadsheets
The Data Report
Data analysis for the rest of us.
The Data Report is a tool that produces general static reports (as opposed to query or intention-based systems) of combined text and graphics given any spreadsheet sent by email.
Status: demoed at INLG2016, searching for an alpha customer.
Technologies employed: Scala, JFreeChart, UIMA.
