Archive for the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Category
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Slides and results from a talk I gave at Kalamazoo College on language identification.
My co-worker at Powerset, Chris Biemann, has a nice paper on Unsupervised Language Identification
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
It's all (well, mostly) about representation. Peter Turney:
[F]iguring out how to represent the problem is 95% of the work. By the time you have the representation right, the tool that you use to finish the remaining 5% is not terribly important.
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
For the few who might be interested: OpenDMAP: An open source, ontology-driven concept analysis engine, with applications to capturing knowledge regarding protein transport, protein interactions and cell-type-specific gene expression (PDF).
OpenDMAP advances the performance standards for extracting protein-protein interaction predications from the full texts of biomedical research articles. Furthermore, this ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
There must be an antonym for 'hype.' To hype something is to engage in hyperbole about it: Apple products have generated their share of hype. (For example: Steve Jobs said, "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.") I don't mean 'anti-hype' ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Here's a QA with the primary gatekeeper to the New Yorker cartoon caption contest:
Q. Did your predecessor or Bob give you any advice when looking through the responses?
A. My predecessor stared me in the eyes and warned me that reading too many captions in one sitting could make a man ...
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Powerlabs coming soon! See the our Powerset home page.
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Sitting down to dinner, I said something like today I wrote a program that wrote a program, and its running righ now. Daughter and wife looked slightly alarmed, and dear wife asked if there were any chance that I was working myself out of a job. I said I didn't ...
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
The uniqueness and immense pragmatic convenience of proper names in our language lie precisely in the fact that they enable us to refer publicly to objects without being forced to raise issues and come to agreement on what descriptive characteristics exactly constitute the identity of the object. They function not ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
When Mr N.N. dies, one says that the bearer of the name dies, not that the meaning dies.
-- Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Why are you reading this, when you should be reading Natalia’s ball-peen hammer to the head?
One of the many things that it takes for a computer to “understand” text (as we are trying to do at Powerset) is for it recognize names and what they refer to. So for example, ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
I got an email today from Larry Hunter at University of Colorado School of Medicine, who writes to say that a DMAP-based parser was the "international world-champion" in the The BioCreAtIvE (Critical Assessment of Information Extraction systems in Biology) data text mining challenge. The chart above are the results from ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
A fun word game oddly related to my current work: Varun's word games.
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
The company I work for, Powerset, is being written up in the New York Times and Venturebeat, both reporting on a deal between Powerset and PARC. The New York Times article (behind a registration wall, alack) mostly follows the storied arc of the Palo Alto Research Center, where the graphical ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005
From Samuel Butler's The Book of the Machines in Erewhon:Complex now, but how much simpler and more intelligibly organised may [a machine] not become in another hundred thousand years? or in twenty thousand? For man at present believes that his interest lies in that direction; he spends an incalculable amount ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
Lemonodor: Stanford Wins Grand Challenge Great pix from John and Lori -- follow the Flickr links.
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
I received an email from Justin Bur that says (quoting with permission):
Your English version of Borges' celebrated essay http://www.entish.org/essays/Wilkins.html contains a rather spectacular mistranslation based presumably on a typo in the original Spanish. Section 16 of Wilkins' taxonomy classifies the *whale*, not beauty, as a viviparous oblong fish. There ...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Daughter Jane straightened out our DVDs today, at her mother's request. She decided to organize by genre: Fighting movies (e.g. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Animation (e.g. The Incredibles), Classicish (e.g. It's a Wonderful Life), Magic (e.g., Harry Potter), Modern Action (e.g., Charlie's Angels), Princess Movies (e.g. The Princess Diaries), ...
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
The Onion | Never In My Wildest Dreams Did I Think I'd Get Bored Watching Robots Fight
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
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Thursday, July 7th, 2005
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in Nationals-Mets game. It was a QRIO from Sony.
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