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From time to time I experiment with GATE NLP toolkit. Just now I tried to upgrade to the latest version (version 4) and run into really strange problem with ANNIE system not loading correctly. Later,when I uninstalled older GATE version,it stopped loading at all. The problem is the user configuration file gate.xml that . . . →Read More:Upgrading to GATE 4? Beware of leftover configuration files. 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 . . . →Read More:“Your local friend”–business idea for travellers Ed Foster has discovered that it is very difficult to sign out from big companies’websites. Yes,it is true when staying within the website’s rules. But it is dead easy otherwise. The important thing to remember is that your identity is most of the times stored in the browser cookies. So,if you kill . . . →Read More:Easy ways to sign out from Amazon,eBay,others As part of doing a PhD in Computational Linguistics,I need to understand both computers and linguistics. I am fine with computers,but linguistics is not my strong point. Unfortunately,many of the linguistics books and resources are quite dry. So,I was really happy to discover an audio course Story of Human Language from . . . →Read More:Story of Human Language –great introductory audio course on linguistics These are new style language-learning websites that are trying to leverage community and/or new capabilities allowed by the internet: SpanishSense –they have podcasts,PDFs,daily emails and a lot more. This site has been done by the same people who have been doing really successful ChinesePod for several years now. It looks very slick. . . . →Read More:3 new language-learning websites As part of The Rich Web Experience,Fairmont hotel –where the conference is held –offers free WiFi. You have to enter username/password on the first post-connect page and then it unlocks browsing capabilities. I love WiFi. I have an HP PocketPC that has WiFi built in. I was fully prepared to read my . . . →Read More:Not so progressive JavaScript enhancement I am currently at The Rich Web Experience 2007 conference. It is interesting to compare it to JavaOne conferences I have been to in the past. To start,RWE is much smaller. It is about 400 people as compared to 15 thousands at JavaOne. This obviously makes scheduling logistics and eating arrangements simpler,but there . . . →Read More:The Rich Web Experience –day 1 Arthur C. Clarke once famously wrote “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. In the same vein,many people feel that any sufficiently established bureaucracy is like a black magic,sorcery even. Certainly,it often takes skills out of this world to follow the logic of modern tax return instructions. Bureaucracy often has its . . . →Read More:Unravelling the black magic of bureaucracy When OpenNLP toolkit uses MaxEnt parser,it has to read in about 25 MBytes of model files. The model reader uses basic unbuffered FileReader. The result is the excessive number of system calls (and disk access calls) during the parser startup. The fix is extremely simple: In maxent-2.4.0/src/java/opennlp/maxent/io/ObjectGISModelReader.java,replace new FileInputStream(f) with new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(f), . . . →Read More:Reducing disk thrashing of OpenNLP/MaxEnt parser –with one line code change I was not able to get OpenNLP parser to work. There were no samples to play with,no command line tools to run. And I don’t even want to talk about documentation. That’s because there was not any. There was an attempt at lame joke (at least that’s the only sense I can make of . . . →Read More:Getting OpenNLP parser to work | ||||
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