Science
Starting an open source effort to bring biomedical data and tools together
Motivation from the community A week ago I posted an blog post about my idea of creating Open Source organization that would have an goal to bring biomedical data and tools together to a single place. The original post can be read found here: http://inspiratron.org/blog/2015/12/12/open-source-effort-to-bring-all-open-biomedical-data-together/. Since I posted it, quite large number of people contacted me, […]
Marvin – semantic annotator
We created Marvin, an semantic text annotation tool that uses external resources such as DBPedia and WordNet to annotate semantically text. Marvin is built in java and can be used as a standalone application or as a library. Marvin semantic annotator already has a lot of knowledge, which will make anyone probably depressed and therefore […]
Scientific blogging
I have seen many advices on how important it is to blog if you want to become influential scientists. Even on my university (University of Manchester), faculties are organizing crash seminars on scientific blogging for researchers with introduction to WordPress. However, I am quite familiar with WordPress, since I was working on some of the […]
Brief introduction to Linked Data
My recent research brought me to linked data as quite interesting concept. I will here write some brief introduction and notes on linked data. Probably at some future point of time I will go deeper into standards and usage. Current state of the Web Internet have revolutionized the way we communicate and how we access […]
What is the big deal with natural language processing?
Recently here at Manchester University, at one class for all PhD students we realized that almost half of student in a group are doing some kind of natural language processing and almost everyone was doing something related with machine learning (even hardware guys are building neural network like multi-processor architecture). Unfortunately, these efforts are not […]
Manchester – first impressions
I haven’t written here for couple of months. There was several reasons for that. My trip to Manchester and my PhD was preparing. There was a lot of changes going on, and there was almost no time for writing. Now there is a little time to write about first impressions. I arrived to Manchester at […]
Future of robotics is happening now
We can say that robots are one of the greatest unfulfilled predictions and promises of science fiction. Question would be for how long? Today there are many projects that are creating this futuristic world of science fiction where we have robot helpers and even autonomous intelligent robots. Robots now are not the luxury of rich […]
How to create spell check?
Have you ever wondered what the underlying technology and math behind a spell checker are? I did, so I even built my own spell checker. Also, with this technology in mind, you can do many other things. It is useful to apply it to a voice recognition api. If you are getting commands from voice, […]
Twitter Sentiment analyzer
Twitter sentiment analyzer tool is a simple tool that will alow you to test sentiment of twitter users about some term. That term could be some trademark, product or any other word (or sequence of words. This is shown to be very useful for marketing agents, business inteligence agents or people who do some kind […]
