RFP -- Consultant needed
From: Fletcher James (fjames_at_levitjames.com)
Date: 12/16/03
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:34:01 -0500
Levit & James, Inc.
Purpose:
My company, Levit & James, Inc. is seeking an individual or individuals to
provide consultation and code development for one or more components in a
new commercial product to be developed in the near term.
Broad Description of the Project:
L&J is starting a new application that requires the development of a module
that parses an arbitrarily large text string (the contents of an MS Word
document) to detect one or more substrings that meet one or more specific
rules criteria. The functionality will be very similar to a grammar
checker.
The detection scheme must consider the following:
* Rules will be categorized, and each category will have some number of
variants.
* Rules for most variants and sub-variants are to be read from a source
rather than "hard-wired" into the module.
* Some of the rules used for the detection employ the use of keywords,
while others do not. Public and private keyword lists will be employed.
* Some of the words in the string may be abbreviated.
* Some words/keywords will have variant spellings and some of the
detected phrases may have incomplete punctuation.
* The detected substrings may or may not be entire sentences.
* The detected substrings may be separated by delimiting punctuation
(e.g., a semi-colon).
Detected substrings that <may> meet the standards set by a rule must be
differentiated from those that <do> meet the rule's standards. These will be
termed "candidates". When a candidate is detected, the output string must
contain information about what part of the rule was violated (including rule
number).
The detection scheme will contain an error checker for substrings which meet
most but not all of the rules criteria. For each detection, the parser will
build an "output substring", which will contain the detected substring and
other information that categorizes the detected substring.
All output substrings will then be communicated to the main application
modules.
Considerations:
* The target platform will be Win32, and the main interactive modules
will be written (by in-house L&J staff) in VB/VBA.
* The parsing routines may be written in any appropriate language for
which a royalty-free runtime is available.
* We expect that the consultant(s) will start from an existing code base
which provides similar functions for other applications. The consultants
must be able to provide L&J with the necessary rights to use such code.
Qualifications:
* Experience in writing text parsing routines/modules
* Established track record in the development of successful commercial
applications
* References
If you are interested:
As President and Director of Development for L&J, I will be the point of
contact for this project. Please send a resume, references, or other
information to me at fjames@levitjames.com .
About Levit & James, Inc.
Levit & James is a software company which specializes in document conversion
and add-in products for Microsoft Word. Our customer base includes Fortune
500 corporations, large law firms, local, state, and federal government
organizations, and professional associations.
For more information, please see our website.
-- Fletcher James President Levit & James, Inc. fjames@levitjames.com (703) 771-1549 CrossEyes Reveals the Codes in Word! www.levitjames.com
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