This John Hunter received a L&IT 2018 Summer Research Project grant to expand the functionality of his Film Search Engine. Working with him was his Sarah Eckermann, who is also his Presidential Fellow. Here is an update on their progress: The Film/Search Engine’s ongoing projects this summer focused around integrating the three main modules that can be used to search/analyze the films in the database with the new front end: those modules are (1) a text-string search that looks for search strings in the closed caption files of the films; (2) an object search that uses neural net processing to find […]