There are a number of new formats and languages that have sprung up with the semantic web in the last few years. LISP (LISt Processing) however is not a new language by any means but seems to have found a new role in the new web. I have and sometimes do program in Lisp because a [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘artificial intelligence’
August 26th, 2009 - 1:26 pm § in Opinion mining
How sentiment analsysis works
There is a lot of interest about Sentiment Analysis (SA) (also called Opinion Mining) in the press at the moment. Since the last decade or so there has been research in this area because we have made enough advances in natural language processing and AI to allow us to contemplate implementing su[...]
April 12th, 2009 - 10:20 pm § in SEO & marketing
More LSI amusement
I wanted to get your opinion on how the Google algorithm actually works according to Leslie Rohde from “StomperNet”. He posted 2 videos, one about LSI and one about “Referential integrity”. “Warning – “Advanced” SEO Technique DOES NOT WORK” vi[...]
April 3rd, 2009 - 1:47 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – ~~~~8}
Welcome to another edition of TGIF. Here’s hoping that you’ve had some unexpected good things come your way this week, be it chocolate, a visit, or some other good news. At my end it has been one of the busiest weeks I have had in a long long time. Then again I haven’t written [...]
March 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This [...]
February 21st, 2009 - 1:36 pm § in Inspirations
Systers pass it on…
I’ve blogged before about women in computing and called out to the SEO ladies asking if they would like to come over to the computing side. This is going to be made easier still as “Systers” have a “Pass-it-on” awards program meaning that any women can apply for a gra[...]
December 19th, 2008 - 8:49 pm § in TGIF
TGIF – holidays!
Welcome to another installment of TGIF. I hope you are all well and that you are looking forward to the Christmas break. Many of you finish work today for at least 2 weeks so make sure you celebrate accordingly and enjoy a beverage of your choice and a couple of sweet treats too Without further [...]
November 24th, 2008 - 2:22 am § in Uncategorized
10 free NLP tools for the SEO
Here is a list of 10 seriously sound NLP tools that I’ve used or still use both for SEO and other things. I won’t tell you what to do with them, I’m sure you’ll find a use for the tool if you like it FreeLing – it’s a package for language analysis containing a[...]
November 17th, 2008 - 3:43 am § in Tools
Super fast live blogging and more
At PubCon a lot of people live-blogged from the event. This means that as the talks and presentations took place, they shared what was being said and what was going on via their blogs. This is really important for any community because it allows for the sharing of information (which is what the [...]
