Some current problems that we must address

What we are doing now is rather complex, because we have to look at what we and others have done and decide on the optimal strategy to make progress.

• For text, the best methods today are so complex that the fail when faced with large volumes of complex technical text. Example: An ASM paper in HTML. The need for and complexity of HTML.
• We must parse hundreds of different types of diagrams.
• Diagrams are only available in raster format. Their "vector" representation is what is needed.
• Move from Lisp to Java to take advantage of the Java platform for GUIs, DB access, networking, etc.
• Current methods for text and diagrams scale poorly. For text, bracketed flat ascii files are the primary format.