Editing Final Report 2010 (section)

==Aims and Objectives==
For decades the written code that is linked to the Somerton Man Mystery has been undecipherable and delivered no solid information about his history or identity. An initialism is an abbreviation of a sentence or phrase and is formed using the first letters of each word. Results from past year projects indicate that the mystery code is likely to be an initialism with the possibility of a substitution cipher being attached to it. The project aims to bring light to the unsolved mystery by tapping into the wealth of information available on the internet. This is done by first verifying the results from past years, and then creating a web crawler and text parser to specifically search for words and patterns similar to the Somerton Man’s code and using statistical analysis to decipher the results we obtain. Of course the ideal goal of this project would be to crack the code, but this is very unlikely and the key sub-goals of creating the web crawler and text parser are the main focus.