14/05/13

05/05/13

 

The algorithms were implemented from scratch and trained on the Reuters articles. For the frequency-rank approach, we additionally used a readily trained implementation of the original algorithm, which we included in the evaluation process as LC4J3. We used each of the algorithms to detect the languages of the previously unused Reuters headlines and the words obtained from dictionaries.
Table 2 shows the accuracies for detecting the language of the Reuters headlines and the dictionary entries across all algorithms and all settings for n. But, the values of LC4J need to be treated carefully: in many cases the algorithm could not detect any language at all. This might be, because the language models provided with the implementation are too sparse for short texts. The values given here are solely based on those cases where language detection was successful. When taking into account the unclassified documents, the accuracy drops drastically to 39.24% for the headlines and to 30.33% for the dictionary words.

(A Comparison of Language Identification Approaches on Short, Query-Style Texts)

28/04/13

“Is Go an object-oriented language? Yes and no.”

Frequently asked questions - GO AUTHORS

20/04/13

The biggest problem with computer security is not communication. It's end points.
(frase de Assange en reunión con Schmidt)

19/04/13

The trick to avoiding complete burnout is easy.

First - don't care at all about your job. Remember that all corporations are by definition psychopaths and they will treat you accordingly.

Second - never do more then 35% of the work you are capable of doing in a day.

Third - if you find yourself getting stressed out tell yourself repeatedly "It's only a stupid job. There is no point in stressing about it."

("I knew a programmer who went completely insane")

09/04/13

The use of statistics in the study of language is linked to the phenomenon of repetition in language. In general, authors who have shown interest in the phenomenon of repetition and the importance of its cognitive function represent a marginal trend inside linguistics. Statistical methods are often aimed at solving practical problems, but not to bolster cognitive or linguistic theories.

Nazar, Rogelio. A quantitative approach to concept analysis. 2010

05/04/13 - tf-idf

• https://github.com/reddavis/TF-IDF
• https://github.com/opennorth/tf-idf-similarity
• https://github.com/louismullie/treat
• https://github.com/mathieuripert/ruby-tf-idf