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SMS <-> Recorded Phone Calls Community Knowledge Base
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SMS <-> Recorded Phone Calls Community Knowledge Base

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/drdub/farmer_text_support
• Owner: DrDub
• License: other
• Created: 2012-06-23T05:49:30.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-02-22T01:37:11.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T04:12:47.764Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: Python
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• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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Farmer Text Support

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SMS <-> Recorded Phone Calls Community Knowledge Base

More information: http://wiki.duboue.net/index.php/Farmer_Text_Support

In rural areas cell phones are the only access to technology available. 

This project targets allowing communities to share knowledge through the 

use of SMS and recorded text messages. Moreover, it also allows for 

governmental organizations and NGOs to contribute and track problems in 

the field.

Scenario

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A person has a question "Can I plant pineapples alongside mangos?", she 

sends it via SMS to the Farmer Text Support (FTS) server. The FTS then 

either matches the question to an existing question/answer pair on its 

database (using techniques for Information Retrieval on Question/Answer 

archives, an active field of research, see this [http://maroo.cs.umass.edu/pdf/IR-652.pdf] 

paper (Retrieval Models for Question and Answer Archives, PDF) or even 

this [http://www.google.com/patents/US20020169595] patent (Method for 

retrieving answers from an information retrieval system). If no suitable 

recorded answer is found, the question is broadcasted to other subscribers 

via SMS. The subscribers can decide to answer it by calling the FTS and 

leaving a recorded message, which is added to the DB. The original person 

asking the question gets the recorded answer and ranks it.