Where are all legal computational linguistics resources?

By 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 legal . . . → Read More: Where are all legal computational linguistics resources?

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Viewfinder Friends – idea for Facebook application

By arafalov, on November 14th, 2007%

Use case

Photos are inherently-social event markers. We take pictures to remember an occasion and – often – people who were present with us at that point. While most of the photographs are not looked at more than once or twice, the more popular ones become very important in our history.

The same does not happen to other . . . → Read More: Viewfinder Friends – idea for Facebook application

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“Your local friend” – business idea for travellers

By arafalov, on October 4th, 2007%

Use case

Many people come to the foreign countries and feel lost/confused traveling around and/or getting services. If possible, they like to go places with a local friend who will point out the best features, explain how things work and/or translate the requests into the local language. This is a service for those who do not have . . . → Read More: “Your local friend” – business idea for travellers

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Love calls over the IP network

By arafalov, on March 5th, 2007%

I usually suck at Velentine’s day presents. This year, however, I may have just killed several birds with one stone and impressed my wife too.

It all started a couple of months ago, when I noticed ever more frequent mentions of internet telephony becoming a very big thing. I have dutifully subscribe to a couple of blogs, . . . → Read More: Love calls over the IP network

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Where is D.A.V.E – uses for portable wireless storage devices

By arafalov, on January 30th, 2007%

What could one do with a portable hard-drive that can be connected to wirelessly? And with software API to boot. More than one can think!

Robert Scoble has a video interview with a Seagate exec about D.A.V.E/DAVE, the new device they are releasing in the coming months. It is envisaged to be an external storage device for . . . → Read More: Where is D.A.V.E – uses for portable wireless storage devices

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