In the morning there was a keynote given by Lars Rasmussen who got his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, then worked in his own start-up that was bought by Google. At Google he was then working on Google Wave and now he is employed at Facebook, where he is…
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Today it was the official conference opening. Obviously, this year’s ACL is one of the biggest conferences. There were almost 1000 papers submitted with acceprance rate of 26%. During the conference there will also be presentations of journal papers from the new Transactions of ACL. The keynote was given by…
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At Optilab I presented the use of Social APIs, focusing on using Facebook API and Spring Social libraries. At first I present some basics and then hands-on build a simple application with Facebook login, some API calls to Facebook and Like button integration. The source code is also available at:…
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In May 2013 I had a simple tutorial about Hidden Markov Models. I introduced the type of algorithm, presented forward/backward algorithm, inference using Viterbi and show a toy example on a simple sentence. Video (if you do not see it, go to http://optilab.viidea.net/zitnik_hidden_markov_models):
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Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL) conference is one of the top ranked conferences in the field of natural language processing. This year I am attending ACL 2013 (http://www.acl2013.org/site/) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Surprisingly, the main conference sponsor is Baidu. My presentation is scheduled on Friday, 9. Aug 2013 at 16:30 (GMT+2)…
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