Plato (FactoidL 2.5)

Named after the prominent Greek philosopher, Plato.

Release Notes:

• Options for changing the source API url (Note: still uses tags for xml source text results.)

• Each factoid is marked as verified as accurate (✔️) or inaccurate (❌), or unverified (❓).

• Slight boost in algorithm performance, although offset with new verified/unverified checks.

• Various minor code fixes like upgrading dependencies and script security.

Access to browser extensions and webpage version on this repository's README file.

Socrates (FactoidL 2.0)

Named after the prominent Greek philosopher, Socrates.

This major update provides a clearer direction for the factoid comparison algorithm.
There have been improvements to both page content and source content (Wikipedia) parsing,
as well as better querying of the source knowledge base. Still, there is much to be accomplished in a following
release for coreference resolution and textual entailment, and further refining queries. All of this comes at a price of performance for a more complex algorithm of better accuracy.

Download it free as a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/factoidl-beta/kilmdgadjedfbopcfbffaeodhamgiadp

Epicurus (FactoidL 1.7, Beta)

Named after Greek philosopher Epicurus.

This is a minor patch to fairly important bugs. The scraped HTML page data did not appear to include any other tags besides paragraph and div. Also, basic "byline" and "dateline" classes are excluded from relevant tags.

This should be the last minor patch before a major fact-checking strategy overhaul, Socrates.

Download it free as a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/factoidl-beta/kilmdgadjedfbopcfbffaeodhamgiadp

Leucippus (FactoidL 1.6, Beta)

Named after Greek philosopher Leucippus.

This minor patch uses DBPedia Spotlight to parse each factoid (sentence) for a keyword to query DBPedia Lookup with. While accuracy in querying the correct terms may not greatly improve, this should clean up the "manual" keyword parsing done before (e.g., non-content words might slip into the keyword results).

Download it free as a Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/factoidl-beta/kilmdgadjedfbopcfbffaeodhamgiadp

Anaxagoras (FactoidL 1.5, Beta)

New Features:

-Reduced minimum characters per sentence checked to 10 (roughly three words with spaces).

-Greatly expanded words cut from factoid when creating query and searching in results via the anaxagorasParser().

This release should widen the query hits and slacken the strict results checking. It will still be quite variable in accuracy.

Chrome Web Store Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/factoidl-beta/kilmdgadjedfbopcfbffaeodhamgiadp

Parminedes (FactoidL 1.0, Beta)

This is meant to be the first official production release, in tandem with releasing FactoidL on the Chrome Web Store as a Chrome extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/factoidl-beta/kilmdgadjedfbopcfbffaeodhamgiadp

Asynchronous loading of fact checking stats on the popup was successfully created, and a slightly more sophisticated fact-checking algorithm was created compared to Prelease (v0.9).

FactoidL 0.9 (Pre-Beta)

All of the initial functionality has been satisfactorily completed, and some minor non-critical features along with a major algorithmic upgrade to fact-checking will be part of v1.0, coming soon.

Development is running smoothly. More thorough testing will be required for the next release, however.