Archive for January, 2007
Fixing eval() to use global scope in IE
[Note: This is the first in what I hope will become a series of technical articles on the lessons I’ve learned “from the trenches” of my web development work at Plaxo. Non-techy readers are invited to skip any articles categorized under “Web development”. ]
Update: This article has been picked up by Ajaxian, and it’s sparked an […]
Posted: January 31st, 2007 under Plaxo, Web development.
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How to stay current with my blog
If you would like to find out when I post something new to my web site, here are three ways to do it (ranging from least work to most useful):
Just check josephsmarr.com periodically. Newest stories are at the top, and you can use the calendar and category links on the right sidebar to see what […]
Posted: January 30th, 2007 under Blog.
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Guy Kawasaki likes my Plaxo widget!
This was a pleasant surprise to wake up to yesterday: Guy Kawasaki, the widely read startup guru whose top-ten lists of do’s and don’t for entrepreneurs are gospel here in the valley, posted a new top-ten list called “The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption“. Number 8 caught my attention in particular:
8. Requirement […]
Posted: January 30th, 2007 under Personal, Plaxo.
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The paper that would not die
Sources of Success for Boosted Wrapper Induction
Journal of Machine Learning Research, Volume 5
Written October 2001, published December 2004
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I co-wrote this paper during the first summer I started doing NLP research, but it didn’t see the light of day until a year […]
Posted: January 27th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, NLP.
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A nifty NLP paper that never made it
Conditional Estimation of HMMs for Information Extraction
Submitted to ACL 2003
Sapporo, Japan
July 2003
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This is another paper I wrote that didn’t get accepted for publication. Like my character-level paper, it was interesting and useful but not well targeted to the mindset and appetite […]
Posted: January 27th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, NLP.
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Information Extraction for the Semantic Web
Finding Educational Resources on the Web: Exploiting Automatic Extraction of Metadata
Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining
Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia
Sempetmber 22, 2003
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The Semantic Web is a great idea: expose all of the information on the web in a machine-readable format, and intelligent agents will the be able to read it and act on your […]
Posted: January 27th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, NLP.
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My most famous NLP paper (CoNLL-03)
Named Entity Recognition with Character-Level Models
HLT-NAACL CoNLL-03 Shared Task
Edmonton, Canada
June 1, 2003
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Every year that Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) has a “shared task” where they define a specific problem to solve, provide a standard data set to train your models on, and then host a […]
Posted: January 27th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, NLP.
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My first NLP research paper
Classifying Unknown Proper Noun Phrases Without Context
Technical Report dbpubs/2002-46
Stanford University
April 9, 2002
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As I describe in my post about my master’s thesis, I started doing research in Natural Language Processing after Chris Manning, the professor that taught my NLP class at Stanford, asked […]
Posted: January 27th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, NLP.
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My Stanford Master’s Thesis
Categorization by Character-Level Models: Exploiting the Sound Symbolism of Proper Names
Master’s thesis, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University
Christopher D. Manning, Advisor
June 11, 2003
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After four years as an undergraduate at Stanford, I wasn’t ready to leave yet. There were more classes I wanted to take, and I wanted to do more research. Since I […]
Posted: January 27th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, NLP.
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FOAF Workshop Talk
Technical and Privacy Challenges for Integrating FOAF into Existing Applications
FOAF Workshop
Galway, Ireland
September 2, 2004
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FOAF stands for friend-of-a-friend and it’s an open standard for describing your contact information and who you know. When social networking sites started exploding, many people were annoyed that they had to keep entering this information over and […]
Posted: January 27th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, Plaxo.
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