Structure in the flow

About myself, briefly, to give some context: I’m an undergraduate student in software engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal.

For the following seven months or so, I’ll be working on a small (read: 4-5 hours a week) extra-curricular research project concerning “automatic methods to extract linguistic information from computer programs”. Stating it differently, that means I’ll be writing (or trying to write) programs to extract meaningful keywords, and relationships among them, from source code and related documents. This project is supervised by Michel Gagnon, a professor in the department of Computer Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. He’s also the one who suggested the topic.

On another note, it has been a while since I wanted to start blogging, so I figured that this was the perfect occasion to do so. I’ll therefore be blogging about this project and interesting books, links and ideas I fall upon along the way. The audience I’ll have in mind is people with some familiarity with programming, but not necessarily with the specific topics I’ll be exploring.