Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Study of the interrupted pattern

After we change the formula to decide the interrupted pattern, we found it's almost impossible to find a case belonging to the interrupted pattern in our current dataset. So we have a problem! If we can not find an interrupted pattern case, how could we verify our approach? On the other hand, when we create the formula to identify the topic development patterns, we have not construct a direct relationship between our patterns and the content. The fundation of these formula is just some observations about the 'curve'. It's not persuasive enough.
We need produce some "interrupted" patterns purposely, and find a good way to represent them with some kinds of fomular. But it should be noted that how much this 'man-made' patterns reflect the real world! It's another problem.

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