In this post, you can find the links to the free online course on Natural Language that Professor Dan Jurafsky & Chris Manning offered on Coursera in 2012. It was a very successful and well-designed course. It is an ideal…
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Book Review: Building and Using Comparable Corpora (Springer, 2013)
I would like to recommend “Building and Using Comparable Corpora” (edited by S. Sharoff, R. Rapp, P. Zweigenbaum and P. Fung) to those who are working with or are interested in multilingual and monolingual comparable corpora. The volume is an…
Book Review: Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining 2nd Ed. (2015)
Book Review: Weiss S. M., Indurkhya N. and Zhang T. (2015). Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining. Springer-Verlag, London. Second Edition Informer website Winter 2016 Issue, Book Review The volume “Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining”, 2nd ed. has nine chapters, a…
Spreading the Word about (Web)Genre Research
What is genre? Why is it useful to master genre conventions? Can we classify document genres automatically? Around the world, lots of researches and scholars belonging to a wide range of disciplines are trying to provide answers to these and…
Distributional Semantics applied to Flickr® Tags
Upcoming Publications MARIANNA BOLOGNESI, International Center for Intercultural Exchange marianna.bolognesi@gmail.com Distributional Semantics meets Embodied Cognition: Flickr® as a database of semantic features Selected Papers from the 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (in press) Distributional models such as Latent Semantic Analysis…
Dissemination: Multi-Labeling Web Pages by Genre
Excerpts from: Chaker Jebari. MLICC: A Multi-Label and Incremental Centroid-Based Classification of Web Pages by Genre. NLDB 2012: 183-190. For the full version, please contact: jebarichaker@yahoo.fr Evaluation Corpus In our approach we used the corpus MGC. This corpus was…
Reading Suggestions: Meaning & Genre — Affect & Buying Behaviour
1) Pattern and Meaning across Genres and Disciplines: An Exploratory Study Author: Groom, Nicholas Journal of English for Academic Purposes, v4 n3 p257-277 Jul 2005 Abstract: Work in corpus linguistics has led to the development of a theory of language…
Reblogging: Practical advice for machine learning
Practical advice for machine learning: bias, variance and what to do next By Mikael Huss at Follow the data (http://followthedata.wordpress.com/about/) The online machine learning course given by Andrew Ng in 2011 (available here among many other places, including YouTube) is highly recommended in its…
Impact of Sociolinguistics in Opinion Mining Systems
Signed post by Alexander Osherenko, Socioware Development, osherenko@socioware.de Full paper: Considering Impact of Sociolinguistic Findings in Believable Opinion Mining Systems Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference On Cognitive Science. 2012. Kalinigrad, Russia (http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/~osherenk/final_kalinigrad.pdf) Opinions are frequent means of communication in…
Reblogging: Informer, Spring Issue
Informer Newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group Spring 2017 Table of Contents Editorial: By Udo Kruschwitz on April 28, 2012 Conference Review: ECIR 2012 Industry Day: By Franco Maria Nardini on April 26, 2012 Book Review: Search Analytics…