This is a guide for how to use the demo made for the Activity Search Modeler accompanied by screenshots of the program's graphical user interface.
In the above image you can see the Graphical User Interface of the Activity Search Modeler. It is quite simple, with just a text-box for the user to enter his query.
The user enters his query in the box and presses enter and then the searching begins. As shown by the picture below the results of the syntactical analysis are also shown to the user while the query is being executed.
Depending on the query and the available related data given to the system by ConceptNet a typical query can range from 5-10 seconds to 30 seconds. But results are continuously sent by the crawlers to the GUI so the user can start browsing immediately.
The results are presented in two columns. On the left column as can be seen on the picture below are all the resulting activities in an easily searchable tree data structure. The reason for its existence has to do with future work on the research project.
On the right column you get the same results along with the url of the website where they were found and a direct link to the article. Moreover on the bottom right part of the window, the program outputs how many results it has found for each query.
Finally for evaluation purposes of our research and for anyone interested there is an option at settings as you can see from the image here
that allows the user to query the web while having ConceptNet completely off the equation. This effectively removes the query expansion part of the algorithm and greatly reduces the number of interesting results returned.
For any questions about the usage of the program don't hesitate to email me at: lefteris _at_ realintelligence.net