A Highly Accurate Sentence and Paragraph Breaker

http://text0.mib.man.ac.uk:8080/scottpiao/sent_detector

Check it out!

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New book "Probabilistic Graphical Models" (2009)

Probabilistic Graphical Models (more)
Principles and Techniques
Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman, 2009

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The OntoNotes Project

http://www.bbn.com/ontonotes/

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The book "Natural Language Processing with Python"

http://www.nltk.org/book

Will study about it soon!

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) - a site containing more than 100,000 free online books in various languages ^_^. Especially, it allows to access the raw texts from books for further processing (e.g. book summarization - a very interesting research direction which has been underestimated so far).

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Reference Management Tools (part 2)

Just want to collect more information about reference management tools.

Part 1: here

1) BibDesk (http://bibdesk.sf.net) for Mac

2) Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/

If you know any others, please suggest me! Thanks in advance!

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Remarkable papers for Vietnamese Word Segmentation

By Doan NGUYEN (Hewlett-Packard Company)

1) "Query Preprocessing: Improving Web Search Through a Vietnamese Word Tokenization Approach". SIGIR'08 (short paper)

2) "Using Search Engine to Construct a Scalable Corpus for Vietnamese Lexical Development for Word Segmentation". Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, ACL-IJCNLP 2009.

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