An introduction to the story and technology behind http://laughtrack.com.au

1. LaughTrack: A Story

2. Pat Allan
http://twitter.com/pat
http://freelancing-gods.com

3. Comedy Addict

4. Melbourne

5. Melbourne International
Comedy Festival
http://www.comedyfestival.com.au

6. Third-Largest
Comedy Festival

7. Who’s First?

8. Edinburgh Fringe

9. > 2000 shows

10. > 34,000 performances

11. Edinburgh 2008
for three days

12. Edinburgh 2009
for one month

13. EdTwinge
http://edtwinge.com/

17. What about Melbourne?

18. LaughTrack

20. Ben Webster
http://www.plus2.com.au/

21. Nathan Sampimon
http://inspire9.com.au/

22. Launched Yesterday

23. LaughTrack: The Code

24. Rails 2.3.5

25. Sphinx &
Thinking Sphinx
http://ts.freelancing-gods.com

26. Bundler 0.9.10
http://github.com/carlhuda/bundler

27. Machinist
http://github.com/notahat/machinist

28. Formtastic
http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic

29. Sprinkle &
Passenger Stack
http://github.com/crafterm/sprinkle
http://github.com/benschwarz/passenger-stack

30. Throne
http://github.com/lstoll/throne

31. CouchDB
http://couchdb.apache.org

32. Why CouchDB?

33. 1. It speaks in JSON

34. Twitter speaks in JSON

35. 2. Peers

36. • Jan Lenhardt • Ben Schwarz
• Lena Herrmann • Lincoln Stoll
• Alexander Lang • Paul Campbell

37. Only Tweets in CouchDB

38. Tracking Sentiment

39. Really Hard

40. Typos

41. Sarcasm

42. Abiguity

43. “Dave Hughes is the shit.”

44. “Dave Hughes is shit.”

45. 1. Key Words & Phrases

46. ... with manual
confirmation

47. 2. Bayesian Filter

48. ... with some
language processing

49. Pedantic
http://github.com/freelancing-god/pedantic

50. Emoticons
:) => smile

51. Common Typos
reaaaalllly => really

52. Contractions
can’t => cannot

53. SMS Shortcuts
tnx => thanks

54. Self-Censorship
sh*t => shit

55. Common Words
a an and as but by how I if in my no now of to

56. URLs
http://bit.ly http://tinyurl.com

57. Stemming
wandering => wander

58. Why?

59. Just the Important Parts

60. Not yet live.

61. Not yet reliable...

62. Twitter is bloody noisy!

63. Laughtrack needs
reviews

64. Not personal attacks

65. Not professions of love

66. Not tweets that you’re
about to see a show

67. Not tweets about Spicks
and Specks, etc

68. Not retweets

69. Culling noise is
tricky too

70. A work in progress

71. Open Source
http://github.com/freelancing-god/laughtrack

72. Fork and Patch!

73. Questions?
http://laughtrack.com.au