Category: Research

As I am very interested into information extraction from textual data, from the research perspective, I have tried to used the services from Alchemy API. Alchemy API is known as one of the best natural language processing services and offers a number of APIs for: entity extraction, sentiment analysis, keyword…

This year we had a bilateral project with Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia. My Serbian friend Bojan Furlan and I were working on Intelligent Question Routing Systems to predict best users as answerers for a given question. The result of the cooperation was a joint paper that we published…

PredictionIO (http://prediction.io/) is an open source machine learning (ML) server. Its goal is to make personalization and recommendation algorithms more accessible to programmers without ML knowledge. It includes recommendation engine and similarity engine which can be instantiated, configured and evaluated via web-based GUI. Due to a limited number of integrated…

After the conference, there were two days of workshops. I had applied for the BioNLP workshop in which Marinka and I have won the Gene Regulation Network Shared Task (GRN ST). Throughout the first day of the workshop, researchers presented some general work in the field of BioNLP domain. I…

This morning’s keynote was given by Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Washington, Dr. Chantel Prat. She focuses mostly into cognitive science. The most interesting part of her presentation I think it was a comparison of monolinguals and bilinguals at problem solving. Her findings show that…