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diff --git a/skate/README.md b/skate/README.md index d3a361c..8e2d7d1 100644 --- a/skate/README.md +++ b/skate/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,18 @@ # skate A small library and suite of command line tools related to generating a -citation graph. +[citation graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_graph). -## Why? +> There is no standard format for the citations in bibliographies, and the +> record linkage of citations can be a time-consuming and complicated process. -Python was a bit too slow, even when parallelized, e.g. for generating clusters -of similar documents or to do verification. An option for the future would be -to resort to [Cython](https://cython.org/). Parts of +## Background + +Python was a bit too slow, even when parallelized (with GNU parallel), e.g. for +generating clusters of similar documents or to do verification. An option for +the future would be to resort to [Cython](https://cython.org/). Parts of [fuzzycat](https://git.archive.org/webgroup/fuzzycat) has been ported into this -project for performance. +project for performance (and we saw a 25x speedup for certain tasks).  |