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discovery of idiomatic noun compounds
Trying to implement Widdows's paper on "Automatic Extraction of Idioms using Graph Analysis and Asymmetric Lexicosyntactic Patterns" on three books of Arthur Conan Doyle: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Forthcoming: LSA on the graph. -
Delhi trip
Occasion: A Workshop
Duration: 5 days (Mar 7, 2006 to Mar 11, 2006) -
Smart replies to SPAM
A sysadmin script at our place diligently replies to all mails (including spams) to inform them that the email address has changed.
Most replies to spam mailers will bounce. I got one such bounced mail.
This is precious (Read the last few lines carefully):
From: postmaster@vodacom.co.za ( Read more... ) -
domain name change...
www DOT ncst DOT ernet DOT in → www DOT cdacmumbai DOT in
My new email address
... AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in → ... AT cdacmumbai DOT in -
Are logos important?
A silly question, no doubt! Logos are important; but do we take the task (of designing logos) seriously?
Designing logos seems a very innocent looking task; a task seemingly so easy that any employee should be able to do. Few even consider the ramifications of designing a logo. Even fewer have a planning process and consider the types of logos ( Read more... ) -
Writing in Hindi the easy way.
One of the tools that our team finds useful while working on our projects (in NLP/IR) is this:
A tool for
converting Romanised hindi (ASCII) into Devanagari (Unicode).
The readable-hindi is called as Rupantar and is an NCST product. It is based on Prof R K Joshi's idea of a pure consonant approach.
I hope you find it as useful. -
Good news for Bandra Reclamation residents
The good news for Bandra reclamation residents: Amitabh has been discharged from Lilavati Hospital, Bandra Reclamation.
Hopefully, he'll complete his recovery soon.
The other good news is that, hopefully, the media and some very 'concerned' fans will now stop herding outside Lilavati, or driving slo...[yawn]...owly past Lilavati ( Read more... ) -
After the setu presentation...
After the presentation, cocavita decided to go to her aunty's house, and I decided to go to M G Road.
Someone told me its a good place to shop around for sweets.
Hung around M G Road for a while searching for a good sweet shop. No luck there. So, I went to Higginbothams for browsing. Purchased My Experiments with TruthWaited for an hour-and-a-half for ( Read more... ) -
Bangalore Project Presentation
Nothing seems to ever go according to plan.
We were told that some "Marketing person" and the CEO of the funding organisation for our project have arrived for a project review in Bangalore. This would have been the first such marketing-oriented project review for me.
We (cocavita and I) were pleasantly surprised to see a semi-technical person being ( Read more... )