Week Eight’s task / assignment for me was simply doing research and gathering facts for both my attachment report and the report on "Issues surrounding the Building of an Autonomous Bibliography Building Agent". I also did some updating on the Robocup ’98 – Paris competitors’ list and the Robocup papers bibliography webpage maintained by our supervisor.

The problem faced here in this task was locating the website of the teams that had participated in games for information about them. Why do I say that it’s a difficult task is because not many teams had their information published in the Internet and that out of these websites, some of them are in foreign language which made it difficult for me to understand and gather data and facts from there. Having no other choice, I decided to locate the email address of the team leader or a member from the team and emailed my request to them. This certainly takes up a lot of time and there are no guarantees that the receiver will reply back.

On the part of my report writing for Project ABBA, I had gathered some information from the Internet throughout the week. Currently, I am still reading through them and abstracting some information from them. However, I feel that just by gathering information from a source is not enough therefore I have decided to make a trip down to the libraries to do more research after work for next week. I would be concentrating the uniqueness of a bibliographic record and also the three major topics – text mining, information retrieval and neural networks.