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 [...][...]
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Rant: Which are you really?
There is a lot of vocab misuse around the web, and especially in webdesign, online marketing and other areas. This does not usually disturb me in any way and I couldn’t care less, but recently it has caused me hassle, so I am having a big rant about it. Some may take it personally, but [...][...]
What is an algorithm?
Let’s get right back down to basics and look at what an algorithm is. There are several different types, and it can all get a little bit confusing sometimes. It can be very complicated and it can also be simple. If you intend to make complicated ones, then you’ll need to delve in[...]
LSA/LSI source code & tools
I’m often asked by students, researchers in other areas and sometimes SEO people where they can find LSI/LSA source code/tools. My favourite beginners tutorial on LSI is by Genevieve Gorrell from Sheffield University. The term is LSA mostly used in computer science these days but it doesn[...]
The importance of Datamining
Data mining is also called knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). Data mining is the extraction of useful patterns and relationships from data sources, such as databases, texts, the web… It has nothing to do however with SQL, OLAP, data warehousing or any of that kind of thing. It uses [...]
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[...]
PhD offer – for the academics
Just a shout out to the academic readers, the University of Geneva has a PhD position in Machine Learning for Multimedia Information Retrieval going if you want to apply. You’d be working in: * multimodal information access, including: o multimodal data analysis o interactive learning * La[...]
TGIF – weekend ahoy
Welcome to another Friday, time for an easy and chilled out post with geeky humour and some inspiration to celebrate the end of a long week. I’ll be working on my PhD this weekend, so will be in a darkened room in front of my laptop and a series if IDE’s – fret not, I [...][...]

