Computational Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages 2012
Slavic Computational Linguistics: Computational Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages (10-11 May 2012, Bloomington, Indiana); Co-located with: Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 21), 11-13 May 2012 and the Workshop in Slavic Linguistics, 14-17 May 2012.
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Tags: Slavic, Computational Linguistics, Corpora, Language Technology

The GUI-based Charty implementation (agenda-based chart parser for CFGs) is finally available on the SNLTK pages.
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Tags: Scheme, Racket, Parser, Syntax, Charty

The Schemers at EMU meet on Thursday 31st of Nov. at 3 PM Eastern Time in the Cooper building for an initial 1.5 hours intro and coordination meeting.

If you would like to participate, bring your computational hardware with DrRacket with you, and maybe have a look at my previous blog entry and also the Scheme Natural Language Toolkit (SNLTK).

We hope that some others will join us. I can open up a communication channel, Skype and Desktop Sharing, maybe soon we can have collaborative editing going (using maybe Eclipse (Did anybody test ECF and the DocShare component in it?)). Just let me know, if you would be interested in joining this session.
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Tags: Scheme, Racket, DrRacket

Here are some introductory video clips for DrRacket:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD0EB7BC8D7CF739A

Thanks to John Clements.

DC
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Tags: Scheme, Racket, DrRacket, Video

I am offering an intensive class for the LING519 students, all the Linguist List people, and whoever might be interested, this Saturday 19th of Nov. 2011 at 10 AM Eastern Time in Cooper, the LinguistList Suite. We plan to meet for 4 hours or more, depending on speed and interest. Let me know, if you are interested. If you want to join us, let me know. I will share the screen and the audio already with Zadar, we can include you, if you cannot come. The topics covered might be:

Intro to Python 3
Using Komodo Edit 6.x
Processing corpora like the Brown corpus (raw text with slash-pos, or TEI XML), the Penn Treebank, the Croatian Language Corpus etc.
Generating statistical models and profiles: frequency profiles, N-gram models
Calculating significance, mutual information, relative entropy, …
Simple Finite State Machines
Simple Parsers
Generating outputs of analyses: CSV, HTML, XML, etc.
…

DC
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Tags: Corpuslinguistics, Python, XML, Brown corpus, Penn Treebank, Komodo Edit, Croatian Language Corpus, CLC, Parsing, FSA, FST

Here is an instruction for building the Google V8 JavaScript engine on Mac OS X as a shell tool for testing:

http://kourge.net/node/123

Just keep in mind, when you want to build it for Mac OS X Lion, the SCons call should be:

scons arch=x64

The rest of the build instructions goes unchanged. Also for the comment at the bottom of the page above, you would add:

scons arch=x64 sample=shell

and get a “shell” binary, which is the JavaScript standalone engine.

If you build the v8 binary, you can copy it for example to /usr/local/bin, to make it available in general.

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Tags: V8, Google, JavaScript, Shell, Mac, OS X

The Schemers and Racketeers are meeting again, join us, see the SNLTK pages…

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Tags: Scheme, SNLTK, Racket

I’ll be at the Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium: Melody and Meter at the Ohio State University on the 11th of November 2011.
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Tags: Ilse Lehiste, Prosody, Slavic, Phonetics

There is an update to be expected on the Scheme Natural Language Toolkit (SNLTK) (and there is soon an update of Scheme coming as well), and the SNLTK is also being ported to common Racket.
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Tags: Scheme, SNLTK, Racket

The European List Symposium in 2012 will be organized at the University of Zadar, and I am on the organizing committee, and participating as well. Stay tuned…
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Tags: ELS, Scheme, Lisp, University of Zadar

to settle down in Ann Arbor and start teaching at EMU, but now we will get back to the project work…
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Tags: Ann Arbor

The Charty parser code is updated to Python 3.x (implementing an Earley parser for context-free grammars), and a compact module, TextStat.py, with some useful functions for N-gram models, frequency profiles, vector space models, statistical analyses, information theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, etc.). If you have comments, or you find some bug or error, let me know.
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Tags: Parsing, Syntax, Statistics, Python, Entropy, Classification, N-Gram Model, Significance

You can use Helsinki Finite-State Transducer Technology HFST3 and Foma to compile XFST or Lexc defined morphologies and transducers…
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Tags: XFST, LEXC, HFST3, Foma

Here is a small introduction about my working environment setting for grammar and morphology development using Aquamacs, XLE, XFST and just scripting with Python and Bash in the OS X Terminal.app...
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Tags: Aquamacs, XLE, XFST, LFG, Parsing, Morphology, Syntax

We will be at the 4th European Lisp Symposium with the SNLTK end of March 2011...
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Tags: SNLTK, Scheme, ELS, Lisp

If you want to set up GnuPG for encryption of files and emails on Mac OS X 10.6 here are the links, very briefly...
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Tags: Apple, Mail, Snow Leopard, GnuPG