Tweet The third Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning will be held at UMBC on Fri. 11 Oct 3013, bringing together students, postdocs, faculty and researchers from...
August 2, 2013
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Tweet Top Charts is a new feature for Google Trends that identifies the popular searches within a category, i.e., books or actors. What’s interesting about it, from a technology standpoint,...
May 23, 2013
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Tweet The UMBC WebBase corpus is a dataset of high quality English paragraphs containing over three billion words derived from the Stanford WebBase project’s February 2007 Web crawl....
May 1, 2013
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Tweet Facebook engineers Xiao Li and Maxime Boucher describe the language processing techniques used to implement Facebook’s graph search in a recent post on the Facebook Engineering page...
April 29, 2013
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Tweet The results of the 2013 Semantic Textual Similarity task (STS) are out. We were happy to find that our system did very well on the core task, placing first out of the 35 participating...
March 25, 2013
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Tweet Google released the Wikilinks Corpus, a collection of 40M disambiguated mentions from 10M web pages to 3M Wikipedia pages. This data can be used to train systems that do entity linking...
March 8, 2013
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Tweet Computing semantic similarity between words and phrases has important applications in natural language processing, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence. There are two...
January 10, 2013
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Tweet Yesterday Google announced a very interesting resource with 175M short, unique text strings that were used to refer to one of 7.6M Wikipedia articles. This should be very useful for...
May 19, 2012
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Tweet The Google’s Knowledge Graph showed up for me this morning — it’s been slowly rolling out since the announcement on Wednesday. It builds lots of research from human language technology...
May 19, 2012
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Tweet UK semantic technology company True Knowledge has released Evi, a mobile app that competes with Siri. [Video] The mobile app is available on the Android Market and on iTunes. You can...
January 29, 2012
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