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I don’t normally go very far uptown in Central Park,but this time I did. So,I discovered the Strawberry Fields Memorial to John Lennon. Aparently,it often has flowers and candles. This time (July 16th),it also had muffins. . . . →Read More:Strawberry Fields Memorial for July 16th A Frenchman studying Russian could not find a good free audio word-list,so he built one himself. Check it out if you studying French or Russian. And if you are fluent in Russian,consider helping him out (I will try to when I have time). And if the idea of list building for the language . . . →Read More:French/Russian audio word list FreshNotes (currently in alpha) uses basic named entity extraction and maybe information extraction to produce a website that allows to search and navigate relationships between people and/or topics. The interface,but of course it is all pre-baked at the moment. From the CL point of view,I can see that there is very little smarts . . . →Read More:FreshNotes:Web 2.0 company using computational linguistics Nice short video about things one could do after (and during) learning Esperanto (via Amuzulo). No surprise to anyone –except Esperanto-bashers –that one can do pretty much anything –travel,read books,make friends,play games,participate in congresses with thousands of people,etc). Any new language is a cross-cutting experience,Esperanto is . . . →Read More:Esperanto is …a bit of everything Scottish Country Dancing is danced everywhere. It is certainly danced in Houston (Texas). The website of the group run by Dianna Shipman looks friendly and inviting. While some links are dead,the explanations of figures are quite interesting and have cute hand-drawn diagrams. Worth a browse. . . . →Read More:Scottish Country Dancing in Houston I have written about UIMA,IBM’s Natural Language Processing framework before. Since then,I had a couple of attempts to get a feel for it. Unfortunately,it kept feeling uncomfortable and confusing. Finally,I figured out why. UIMA’s extensive documentation expects that you are committed to the framework. So,the documentation makes sure you understand . . . →Read More:UIMA’s expectations of the user In Lisbon,they know a good sport when they see one. During their annual Fun and Games Day,people can compete in many sports including Football,Touch rugby and Scottish Dancing. While the rules for normal sports are easy to find,the ones used for two team competitive Scottish Country Dancing are somewhat harder to . . . →Read More:On equal footing:Scottish Country Dancing and Football Nice,simple typing speed test page. Even with tired hands,I managed to pull good 86 wpm with only a 3 mistakes. I remember buying the TypeQuick software long time ago to learn touch typing,when it still came on floppies and had some really strange copy protection. I remember the pain it was to . . . →Read More:Online typing speed test The sessions are finally up and like last couple of years have sound synchronized with the slides and transcripts. Like last couple of years,there are some transcription errors. Not surprising given the accents,etc. Still,I wish Sun had given the speakers a way to double check and correct the transcriptions. Given that they . . . →Read More:JavaOne 2006 sessions are up with sound and transcripts | ||||
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