Category: Science
Topics related to how science should be conducted and generally about the philosophy of sciences, some good and bad things in the academic world.
What is wrong with academic publishing?
I bet that each PhD student and even older academics at some point though or came to the idea that something is wrong with academic publishing. It is not hard to come to that idea, especially if you were influenced a bit by open source and left wing ideas that…
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: https://inspiratron.org/blog/2015/12/12/open-source-effort-to-bring-all-open-biomedical-data-together/. Since I posted it, quite large…
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…
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…
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…
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)….
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….
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…
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…
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…