OpenAmplify

February 2010 - Writ of Hapaxeas Corpus

  • Dialects and armies

    The corpus linguistics discussion list (corpora-request@uib.no) has been discussing an interesting question: what's the difference between a "dialect" and a "language"? Linguists' traditional answer is that a language is a...
  • IBM: How to Generate an Ontology from a Tag Cloud

    The USPTO recently published a Patent application by IBM, named DERIVING ONTOLOGY BASED ON LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNITY TAG CLOUDS The application is filed in 2008 and presents ideas around the semantic web, and how to enhance categorization and tagging...
  • Facebook vs. Google

    Mike Melanson, who blogs for ReadWriteWeb, an Internet-news website,  wrote an article about how Facebook seems to be trying to become everyone's "universal login" -- making your Facebook identity your key to lots of other things. Simple enough.

    Melanson's blog entry climbed to the top Google hit for "Facebook login". Probably that's because Google knows it's a blog, and blogs are timely, and timely information is good.

    Do you see the headlight of the oncoming train?

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  • Which ActionType are You?

    A lot of new cool stuff has been released in the new version of OpenAmplify, the 2.0 Version: Text-level Polarity, Guidance, Decisiveness and Temporality; NER - Named Entity Recognition; PinPoint to name some. One thing that is not mentioned in any release...