An extremely interesting 2-day menu of Text Analytics activities in Boston coming up this Sunday. It includes (the highlights below are my selection from the online menu):
1. Pre-conference workshops (Text Analytics for dummies and MarketPlace Overview),
2. Keynote by Microsoft CompLing Research Labs on sentiment detection,
3. An Industry Panel including a Sr. Product Manager from Business_Objects/SAP (previously Inxight), the CTOs of Attensity and Clarabridge and the VP of SPSS,
4. Text mining and evaluation in blogs,
5. A presentation in Speech Analytics by the SVP of CallMiner, Inc. and
6. A presentation in Visual Analytics in Pharma data by the rep of Merck KGaA.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Glottopedia
Check out Computational Linguistics in Glottopedia*. Of course you can edit the lemmas just like in Wikipedia. A nice little corner for CompLinguists.
*Apologies if the link to the Glottopedia site doesn't work; I've found that the site is down periodically.
*Apologies if the link to the Glottopedia site doesn't work; I've found that the site is down periodically.
Monday, June 9, 2008
iPhone
Well, okay, it's now a bit cheaper.
However, there are still a couple of glaring omissions in its features specifically in terms of accessibility:
Whereas most blackberry devices are hearing-aid compatible (HAC), iPhone isn't. This simply means that about 20 millions of Americans that are born with (or have acquired) varied degrees of hearing loss throughout their lives are automatically excluded from iPhone's clientele since the phone cannot be used with a hearing aid's microphone (M) or telecoil (T) switches.
iPhone also does not support multiple languages i.e. languages other than English that the phone can be set to display its menus and text in. This also means that iPhone -perhaps inadvertently- excludes e.g. Spanish-speaking audiences from its clientele, unless of course they know to write and read in English.
It's high time that Apple opened its tech doors to the world. As long as it remains "exclusive" and in that sense esoteric to the masses, it may never attain the success and popularity of a Blackberry.
However, there are still a couple of glaring omissions in its features specifically in terms of accessibility:
Whereas most blackberry devices are hearing-aid compatible (HAC), iPhone isn't. This simply means that about 20 millions of Americans that are born with (or have acquired) varied degrees of hearing loss throughout their lives are automatically excluded from iPhone's clientele since the phone cannot be used with a hearing aid's microphone (M) or telecoil (T) switches.
iPhone also does not support multiple languages i.e. languages other than English that the phone can be set to display its menus and text in. This also means that iPhone -perhaps inadvertently- excludes e.g. Spanish-speaking audiences from its clientele, unless of course they know to write and read in English.
It's high time that Apple opened its tech doors to the world. As long as it remains "exclusive" and in that sense esoteric to the masses, it may never attain the success and popularity of a Blackberry.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
South and North California dichotomy
It's one thing to hear it and totally another to actually live it.
Californians seem to have a good reason for being displeased with the stereotype.
Upon arrival in Northern Cali, I was welcomed by numerous friends and acquaintances who didn't know my exact location with a "Welcome to LA!". Ha! Not all Cali is LA and thank God for that! Unlike my American friends, my only reason of discontent with LA is the fact that it's a big city. I love almost every suburb around LA but I am not a big fan of LA itself. So when I correct my well-wishing friends, I have my reasons and they have theirs for looking at me with concern. I'm a few light years away from the local stereotypes but it's funny how assumptions work, especially when they are so obvious.
Californians seem to have a good reason for being displeased with the stereotype.
Upon arrival in Northern Cali, I was welcomed by numerous friends and acquaintances who didn't know my exact location with a "Welcome to LA!". Ha! Not all Cali is LA and thank God for that! Unlike my American friends, my only reason of discontent with LA is the fact that it's a big city. I love almost every suburb around LA but I am not a big fan of LA itself. So when I correct my well-wishing friends, I have my reasons and they have theirs for looking at me with concern. I'm a few light years away from the local stereotypes but it's funny how assumptions work, especially when they are so obvious.
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