Via the INDUCTIVE mailing list, I learned of the Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning It is becoming more and more obvious that the research community in general, and those who work NLP and ML in particular, are biased towards publishing successful ideas and experiments. Insofar as both our [...]
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Or: towards evidence-based ‘add a contact’ filtering… This just in from LinkedIn: Have a question? Zander Jules’s network will probably have an answer You can use LinkedIn Answers to distribute your professional questions to Zander Jules and your extended network. You can get high-quality answers from experienced professionals. Zander Jules requested to add you as [...]
What obliterate means…
I’ve started a thread on the Semantic Web Interest Group list, proposing that we meet during W3C’s Technical Plenary week this coming October. If you like the idea and plan to attend, please jump in and say so. If you have other ideas, please let us know them! In the past we have handled this [...]
Closing some tabs… Stephen Fry writing on ‘social network’ sites back in January (also in the Guardian): …what an irony! For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago? Is it part of some deep human instinct that we [...]
I use Firefox with a lot of tabs. I guess I’m a multi-tasker. Or I have surplus attention. Or they fixed enough memory leaks in Firefox 3 so that opening a new tab is almost cost-free. Until you restart your browser (is there a bug open for this? I couldn’t find one). I’ve just made [...]
GraphPath … … a little-language for analysing graph-structured data, especially RDF. The syntax of GraphPath is reminiscent of Xpath. It has a python implementation that can be teamed up with your favourite python RDF API (e.g. Redland, rdflib, or your own API). Anyone tried it? Apparently it has a rule/inference system too (backward chaining). I [...]