arafalov on January 27th, 2009

Homegrown visualization is not the only way to quickly navigate CiteULike references. There are other tools that display bibliographies in interesting ways.
One of such tools is Exhibit, one of graduates from SIMILE project. It allows to do a very interactive webpage driven by just HTML+Javascript, with no server-side component required. I really like SIMILE’s tools, [...]

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arafalov on January 25th, 2009

I am collecting my reading and reference material in CiteULike. I like the service because it can capture details from multiple sources. It also allows to discover what was collected by other interesting people through tags, people and bookmarks graph navigation.
Nice as CiteULike is, it is fairly difficult to get an overall picture of one’s [...]

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Dr. René Witte has just created a new mailing list (SENLP) to discuss applying NLP techniques to Software Engineering and also to discuss general Software Engineering issues in developing NLP systems.
I am interested in both topics. I did 3 years as senior technical support at BEA and could see how applying NLP techniques on written [...]

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arafalov on January 13th, 2009

I am frustrated. I know my corpus (resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly) shares a lot in common with biomedical and legal domain. And I can find interesting articles in biomedical domain dealing with similar issues of complex tokenization, long named entity mentions (though mine are much longer), etc. But I see nothing in [...]

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arafalov on January 9th, 2009

I really do not get Wired Magazine’s subscription policy. They are supposed to target smart geeks, yet make really stupid moves.
I used to be a subscriber. But I got annoyed by a large number of ads, deliberate and unnecessary foul language and subscription inserts advertising $8 new subscriptions. So, I did not renew early.
Renewal notices [...]

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