Kaggle

Link: http://www.kaggle.com/competitions
Intro: A platform for paid problem solving around the world.

pialign - Phrasal ITG Aligner

Link: http://phontron.com/pialign/

Intro: pialign is a package that allows you to create a phrase table and word alignments from an unaligned parallel corpus. It is unlike other unsupervised word alignment tools in that it is able to create a phrase table using a fully statistical model, no heuristics. As a result, it is able to build phrase tables for phrase-based machine translation that achieve competitive results but are only a fraction of the size of those created with heuristic methods.

*** Note: pialign can extract very compact phrase table directly from unaligned parallel data. This is may be very helpful for SMT system in mobile environment.

Source Code Search

Links:
1) http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory
2) http://code.ohloh.net/
3) http://runnable.com/

Tree visualization with Treebolic

Link: http://treebolic.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

Intro: Treebolic is a Java component (widget) whose purpose is to provide a hyperbolic rendering of hierarchical data.

A tree is rendered with nodes and edges but display space is subject to a particular curvature (hence the name) : more space is allocated to the focus node while the parent and children, still in the immediate visual context, appear slightly smaller. The grandparents and grandchildren are still visible but come out even smaller. As we move away from the focus node, less display space is allotted to the nodes, which gradually disappear towards the disk's border, as though the whole hierarchy were seen through a fisheye lens.

Wrapped as a Java applet, the Treebolic widget can be embedded in a web page. Nodes may then contain hypertext links and the browser to other web pages.

The tree is dynamic (animation brings the focus node to the center) and responds to user interaction.

It looks good. See an illustrating example in Vietnamese Wordnet at here.

Vietnamese Wordnet

Link: http://vi.asianwordnet.org/

Intro: Vietnamese WordNet is used WNMS tools developed by AsianWordNet to create and share WordNet among Asia languages based on WordNet® version3.0, Co-operation by TCL and -- Vietnam -- establish on October 2007.

It's sad that it has not been developed by Vietnamese people :(.

YALIGN

Link: http://yalign.machinalis.com/

Intro: Statistical Machine Translation relies on parallel corpora for training translation models. However these corpora are limited and take time to create. Yalign is designed to automate this process by finding sentences that are close translation matches from comparable corpora. This opens up avenues for harvesting parallel corpora from sources like translated documents and the web.

WordWanderer

Link: http://wordwanderer.org/

It's fun, right?