Statistical Language Processing & Cloud Computing

http://blog.alchemyapi.com/?p=44

A great article!

Detection of Errors and Correction in Corpus Annotation

http://decca.osu.edu/

Intro: The success of data-driven approaches and stochastic modeling in computational linguistic research and applications is rooted in the availability of electronic natural language corpora. Despite the central role that annotated corpora play for computational linguistic research and applications, the question of how errors in the annotation of corpora can be detected and corrected has received only little attention. The DECCA project is designed to address this important gap by exploring an error detection and correction method with potential applicability to a wide range of corpus annotations.

POCO C++ Library

Yet another one but Boost:

http://www.appinf.com/en/products/pocolibs.html

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Speller Challenge

http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/spellerchallenge/

May consider such big event!

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SciVerse

http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciverse-applications
http://www.applications.sciverse.com/action/gallery

Elsevier SIGIR 2011 Application Challenge: http://developer.sciverse.com/SIGIR2011

Important Dates

+ Startdate: June 6, 2011
+ Enddate: July 23, 2011
+ Judging starts: July 24, 2011
+ Judging ends: July 26, 2011
+ Announcement of the Winners: July 26, 2011

Prizes

+ First prize: 1,500 USD (VISA gift card)
+ Second prize: 1,000 USD (VISA gift card)
+ Third prize: 500 USD (VISA gift card)

Free Online File Converter

http://www.cometdocs.com/

Fantastic UI. Great Functionality with PDF to various file types (e.g. office files, HTML, ...).

Especially, it's free!

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Topic Directory (~590K available categories so far)

http://www.dmoz.org/

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

It is in multiple languages. Great!

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