solutions-resit/resit.scala
author Christian Urban <christian.urban@kcl.ac.uk>
Mon, 08 Nov 2021 02:20:35 +0000
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// Resit Exam about data-mining a chat log
//=========================================
//
// This coursework is about mining a log of an online chat between 85
// participants. The log is given as a csv-list in the file
// log.csv. The log is an unordered list containing information which
// message has been sent, by whom, when and in response to which other
// message. Each message has also a number and a unique hash code.
//
// !! For further information abiout the tasks, see:     !!
// !!                                                    !!
// !! https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/christian.urban/cw-resit.pdf !!

object Resit {

import io.Source
import scala.util._

//=============
// (1) The function get_csv takes file name as argument. It should read
// the corresponding file and return its content. The content should
// be returned as a list of strings, a string for each line in the
// file. Since the file is a csv-file, the first line (the header)
// should be dropped. Lines are separated by "\n".


def get_csv(name: String) : List[String] = ...

// test cases:
//
// get_csv("log.csv")
// get_csv("log.csv").length  // should be 680


//=============
// (2) The function below takes a single line from the csv-file (as
// generated by get_csv) and creates a Rec(ord) data structure. The
// data from the csv-file should be copied as follows:
//
//     csv-file         Rec data structure
//     -----------------------------------
//      counter      => num
//      id           => msg_id 
//      time_date    => date
//      name         => author
//      country      => country (should be None if no country is given)
//      parent_id    => reply_id (should be None if there is no parent)
//      msg          => msg
//                   => parent is set to None  (will be calculated later)
//                   => children is set to Nil (will be calculated later)
//
//     You should use the function line.split(",").toList to separate
//     the items in the csv-line. BE CAREFUL that the message text in 
//     the last field can contain commas and therefore the split will not
//     always result in a list of 7 elements. You need to concatenate
//     anything beyond the 7th field into a single string for the field msg.

case class Rec(num: Int, 
               msg_id: String,
               date: String,
               msg: String,
               author: String,
               country: Option[String],
               reply_id : Option[String],
               parent: Option[Int] = None,
               children: List[Int] = Nil)  



def process_line(line: String) : Rec = ...


// test cases:
//
// process_line("""0,5ebeb459ac278d01301f1497,2020-05-15T15:25:13.413000,participant34,United Kingdom,5ebea6424923321d63155796,this question please?""")
// 
//      ==>  Rec(0,
//               "5ebeb459ac278d01301f1497",
//               "2020-05-15T15:25:13.413000",
//               "this question please?",
//               "participant34",
//               Some("United Kingdom"),
//               Some("5ebea6424923321d63155796"),
//               None,
//               List())
//
// process_line("""1,hash,date,p43,,,foo, bar""")
//
//      ==>  Rec(1, "hash", "date", "foo, bar",
//               "p43", None, None, None, List())
//
// (Note that in the second test case the message needs to be "foo, bar")


//=============
// (3) Each record in the log contains a unique hash code
//     identifying each message. Some messages also contain a hash
//     code identifying the parent message (to which question they reply).
//     The function post_process fills in the information about
//     potential children and a potential parent message. 
//  
//     The auxiliary function get_children takes a record e and a
//     record list rs as arguments, and returns the list of all direct
//     children (which have the hash code of e as reply_id). The list
//     of children are returned as a list of nums.
//      
//     The auxiliary function get_parent returns the number of the
//     record corresponding to the reply_id (if there exists one,
//     otherwise returns None).

def get_children(e: Rec, rs: List[Rec]) : List[Int] = ...

def get_parent(e: Rec, rs: List[Rec]) : Option[Int] = ...

def post_process(rs: List[Rec]) : List[Rec] = ...


// test cases:
//
//val recs = get_csv("log.csv").map(process_line)
//
//post_process(recs)(4).children   // List(12)
//post_process(recs)(23).children  // List(16,26)
//
//post_process(recs)(8).parent     // None
//post_process(recs)(9).parent     // Some(7)
//post_process(recs)(16).parent    // Some(23)
//post_process(recs)(26).parent    // Some(23)


//=============
// (4) The next two functions calculate the countries where
//     message authors are coming from and how many authors
//     come from each country (returned as a Map from countries
//     to numbers). In case an author did not specify a country,
//     the empty string is returned.

def get_countries(rs: List[Rec]) : Set[String] = ...
  
def get_countries_numbers(rs: List[Rec]) :  Map[String, Int] = ...

// test cases:
//
//val recs = get_csv("log.csv").map(process_line)
//
// get_countries(recs) => 
//
//    Set("", Poland, Lebanon, Trinidad and
//        Tobago, Japan, Spain, Nigeria, Peru, India, Lithuania, Hong
//        Kong, Italy, Ireland, Uganda, England, Bangladesh, China,
//        Romania, Slovakia, United Kingdom, Norway, Pakistan, Indonesia,
//        Malaysia, Turkey, Portugal, Hungary)
//
// get_countries_numbers(recs) => 
//
//    Map("" -> 4, Poland -> 2, Lebanon -> 1, Trinidad and Tobago -> 2,
//        Japan -> 1, Spain -> 1, Nigeria -> 1, Peru -> 1, India -> 6,
//        Lithuania -> 1, Hong Kong -> 3, Italy -> 1, Ireland -> 2, Uganda -> 1,
//        England -> 4, Bangladesh -> 2, China -> 4, Romania -> 3,
//        Slovakia -> 1, United Kingdom -> 34, Norway -> 1, Pakistan -> 2,
//        Indonesia -> 2, Malaysia -> 1, Turkey -> 1, Portugal -> 1,
//        Hungary -> 2)


//============= 

// (5) The function ordered_thread_sizes orders the message threads
// according to how many answers were given for one message (that is
// how many children, grand-children and so on one message has).
//
// The auxiliary function search enumerates all children,
// grand-children and so on for a given record r (including the record
// itself). Search returns the children and so on as a list of Recs.
//
// The function thread_size generates for a record, say r, a pair
// consisting of the number of r and the number of all children as
// produced by search. 
//
// The function ordered_thread_sizes orders than the list of pairs
// according to which thread in the chat is the longest.

def search(r: Rec, rs: List[Rec]) : List[Rec] = ...
  
def thread_size(r: Rec, rs: List[Rec]) : (Int, Int) = ...
 
def ordered_thread_sizes(rs: List[Rec]) : List[(Int, Int)] = ...
 

// test cases: 
//
//val recs_p = post_process(get_csv("log.csv").map(process_line))
//
//search(recs_p(459), recs_p).map(_.num)
//    => List(459, 401, 404, 426, 428, 399, 377, 357, 325, 304)
//
//thread_size(recs_p(459), recs_p) 
//    => (459,10)
//
//ordered_thread_sizes(recs_p).take(4)
//    => List((402,18), (95,12), (488,11), (459,10))


}