Category Archive: Random Musings

Feb 21

Helping the spammers

As I was updating the site, I took notice of all the ways that people (myself included) attempt to obfuscate their e-mail addresses to avoid getting their e-mail picked up by the spammers diligently crawling the web.  You often see variations like first.last@domain.com first@lastname.com first[dot]last@domain.com <first_initial><last_name>@domain.com Even though the extra layer of HTML makes the …

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Feb 20

Me Sense Disambiguation

As you can probably guess from my URL and the list of links on the sidebar, you’ll quickly realize I am somewhat obsessed about disambiguating myself from the masses on the interwebs who share my somewhat common name.  While, I’m no Joe Smith or David Johnson, this task still presents challenges, especially when you consider …

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Jan 08

Named Entity Recognition

Hi Wayne, I’ve been trying to figure out an appropriate information model (most likely XML-based) to correspond to my annotation schema, as I have started to form my notions of how this should look to allow for future expansion, ease of use when annotating, and accessibility for feature extraction, I’m kind of rethinking how annotation …

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