Monday, 21 January 2013

Explicit Semantic Analysis - ESA

Intro: ESA is a vector representation of texts based on Wikippedia as external knowledge base.
Linkhttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/resources/code/esa/esa.html

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research

Link: https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=348&keyword=

Monday, 5 November 2012

Multeval

Linkhttps://github.com/jhclark/multeval
Intro: MultEval takes machine translation hypotheses from several runs of an optimizer and provides 3 popular metric scores, as well as, standard deviations (via bootstrap resampling) and p-values (via approximate randomization). This allows researchers to mitigate some of the risk of using unstable optimizers such as MERT, MIRA, and MCMC. It is intended to help in evaluating the impact of in-house experimental variations on translation quality; it is currently not setup to do bake-off style comparisons (bake-offs can't require multiple optimizer runs nor a standard tokenization).
Relatedhttp://www.ark.cs.cmu.edu/MT/ (Code for Statistical Significance Testing for MT Evaluation Metrics)

Saturday, 3 November 2012

MacPorts

Linkhttp://www.macports.org/index.php
IntroThe MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

TalkBank

Link: http://talkbank.org/
Intro: The goal of TalkBank is to foster fundamental research in the study of human and animal communication. It will construct sample databases within each of the subfields studying communication. It will use these databases to advance the development of standards and tools for creating, sharing, searching, and commenting upon primary materials via networked computers.