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  • Words for Snow

    Stockholm, March 10, 2010 Winter still holds us in a firm grip. The sky is high, the air crisp. Waiting for the morning train I stamp my feet to keep warm, snort and shade my eyes for the bright sun. I think about the popular urban snowy legend again...

  • 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?

    ...

  • 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...

  • Turing, or not Turing

    You may have heard of the "Turing Test." It was proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 as a way to determine whether an Artificial Intelligence system "can think." There's extensive debate about whether it's even possible in principle...

  • Linguistic Variables in Fuzzy Logic

    Last Friday I had a dinner party. We’re a group of families in my neighborhood that take turns in cooking Friday dinner. This last Friday a few extras were invited and the number of guests around my table ended at 17. I enjoy all kind of social...

  • Google defines The Meaning of Open

    In yesterday's post from the Official Google Blog, Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management, gives the Google take on The Meaning of Open. It's a great long piece on the beauty of openness, well worth reading: According to...

  • Obama has spoken at #Cop15

    ...And the world was listening. But what did the President say? Not surprisingly, he spoke about Politics. To be more specific, about America, the world and the danger of climate change. His tone was informative: he offered a lot of guidance. His language...

  • TSA leaks sensitive documents via PDF editing

    This week news broke about TSA (the US Agency that handles airport security) leaking a sensitive manual on airport screening procedures -- see http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/tsa-leak/ . It includes information about how to pick which passengers...

  • The First Search Engine?

    Do you remember which search engine came first? Back in days of the turn of the century, we at Hapax (the mother company of OpenAmplify) were focused on creating our search engine: The FindEngine™, an NLP-based Question-Answering system. Back then...
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  • Amping the Tube

    Google recently announced that they are adding (highly) experimental support for automatic captions in YouTube videos. The captions are added using Google's own speech-to-text technology, and will initially only be available for a few selected partner...

  • 2009 Semantic Web Challenge

    From http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_01355 -- winners of the SW Challenge. Especially interesting is "Scalable Reduction", which promises help in dealing with huge collections of harvested RDF data that...

  • Microsoft Patents Sudo?

    Picked up from a Groklaw report from November 11 2009: "Lordy, lordy, lordy. They have no shame. It appears that Microsoft has just patented sudo..." Sudo is a command that enables a user to input a password to do a task the user doesn't...
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  • Where were you at 11:49 a.m. on October 17?

    Oh, you can't really remember straight away? Hmm, was October 17 a work day or not? Chances are that somebody, or something, remembers it for you. The New York Times recently wrote about a young man suspected of robbery whose alibi was supported by...
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