Introduction Just released source code for a simple Bayesian classifier based on ci-bayes project. The classifier offers two working modes: basic db mode, and direct db mode.  Details In 'basicdb' mode the classifier still uses memory hash table structures to store feature/token and category counts, but also implements classifier and classification listener interfaces for...
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 Working on semantic extensions for the jamwiki software, I spend my time loading and parsing the Wikipedia dumps on regular basis. My goal is to use NLP Parsers and NLP co-reference linker to extract information on entities (people, places, dates, etc...). In addition to, linkage with freebase and dbpedia entities. Out of the 7M+ plus pages in Wikipedia dumps about 2.2M...
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At our annual Information Management Conference ( Adastra IM X ) I had the pleasure to run into Peter Hora from Semanta , Roman Stanek from GoodData, including the usual keynote speakers such as Dr. Peter Aiken . As usual, the presentations were great, but the side discussions were even better!  
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Company blog of Daniel Fisla - the founder of ITMATTER Inc. - Software architect/technologist. As a founder of ITMATTER Inc. I am involved in numerous open source software projects and plan to use this blog to communicate short insights into current and future projects of interest. Current list of projects consists of: 1. DataCleaner - Open Source - Data Quality Solution - ...
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As a part of the JAMWiki Java Engine High Performance Extensions project, I have done extensive research into minimizing disk access overhead. For validation purposes, I have loaded the Wikipedia articles into JAMWiki solution - about 22GB+ in size, 8M+ articles. With respect to parsing Wikipedia articles and other related content, I have decided to pre-render a significant number of...
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