Difficult to Pwn IM Language iykwimaityd
Researchers at the University of Toronto, Canada, suggest that instant messaging represents “an expansive new linguistic renaissance” (story from New Scientist.) We’ve tried seeding YooName with a list...
View ArticleOntology is Overrated
This is an extract (a summary by sentence extraction – like these old days text summarizers were doing ;) of Clay Shirky’s blog post titled ‘Ontology is Overrated‘. * * * Today I want to talk about...
View ArticleDayLife Developer Challenge
DayLife is staging a challenge from June 3rd to June July 25th (extended date): Build the future of news, in software! Build an application that uses the Daylife API. No limits here: mashups, portals,...
View ArticleInteresting new research problem
This article, found via digg, highlights an inherent ‘by-design’ flaw of automatic news aggregators, including Google News: they need a significant amount of press coverage before promoting news to...
View ArticleSemantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use
The University of New York will host a symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery mid-November. The presentations will consist of invited talks by leaders (see below) in the field and partially of...
View ArticleThe New York Times Annotated Corpus
The New York Times just released (through LDC) a gigantic corpus including: Over 1.5 million articles manually tagged by The New York Times Index Department with a normalized indexing vocabulary of...
View ArticlePushing Automation a Step Forward
(and hope not to fall off the cliff) * * * I recently worked on the implementation of ‘Stacked Skews Model’, an algorithm proposed by Andrew Carlson and Charles Schafer. The idea is to train a web page...
View ArticleYooName is *not* a search engine
(and other frequently given answers) In the last few weeks, YooName traffic increased dramatically (ten fold), and so did the volume of emails. Don’t be offended if I answer your email by linking to...
View ArticleNew Information Extraction Projects
YooName named entity recognition technology is now at the hearth of new projects in the domain of Online Reputation Management and Monitoring. InfoGlutton aggregates restaurant reviews and classify...
View Article8 Sentiments
8Sentiments.com is semi-supervised sentiment analysis engine. 8Sentiments model is trained every day from large volume of unannotated Twitter data and can learn emotion related to current topics. For...
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