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Axil: a Python implementation of Contextual Network Graph

Published on 8/16/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

Axil (AXiom Indexing Library) is a indexing library for Divmod’s Axiom database. It is an implementation of a graph based text classification alghorithm known as CNG (Contextual Network Graphs).

Contextual Network Graphs are a modified version of what was prior refferd to as Spreading Activation Network algorithms: they are a method for implement classification strategies that are been evaluated as qualitative equivalent to LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) or naive-baesyan classifiers, without many of their limitations (as term-document matrix recalculation as in LSI or continuos-learnig phase as naive-baesyan classifiers).

First there’ns a support for many languages (notably many european and all asian languages) in all of the indexing phases (in particular there is a stemming implementation only for EN and IT languages); this lack of support implies the lack of a chance to implement “term reduction” strategies in early stage of the process, resulting in a loss of effectivness in subsequents phases.

Furthermore document term extraction (splitting/stemming) implementations are written in pure Python and are slow comparing to C/Python based parsers;

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Plantasia: game of gardening

Published on 7/25/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

This is cool! When working on my master thesis I was always looking for this kind of games, which could help kids (and adults) to understand some more of the life of plants.

From the creators of Diner Dash comes Plantasia, a game of gardening delight. Enter your luscious gardens, where magical flowers and a fairy-in-training are waiting to show you the way. Plant seeds, harvest flowers, restore fountains, and watch as your gardens bloom. But beware! Weeds, rocks, insects and the clock are all waiting to make your game a fun-filled challenge.” Players restore one garden after the next, choosing flowers and gardening spells as they discover how a fairy wish unfolds. The game features 50 levels, more than 35 types of plants with varying blooms, five gardens, multiple emotional states for each plant, and two modes that consist of “Holly’s Story” or “Garden Challenge.

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TheBroth: a collaborative mosaic

Published on 6/30/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

TheBroth connects you with people around the world to interact in a massively multiplayer, real time global mosaic, made of 1000 colorful tiles. Tow aspects of it are interesting: the choice between a constructive and destructive behavior and the social rating of the behavior of the users.

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Fujaba: a public domain case tool for UML

Published on 6/28/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

The primary topic of the Fujaba Tool Suite project is to provide an easy to extend UML and Java development platform with the ability to add plug-ins. Fujaba Tool Suite combines UML class diagrams and UML behaviour diagrams to a powerful, easy to use, yet formal system design and specification language. Furthermore the Fujaba Tool Suite supports the generation of Java sourcecode out of the whole design which results in an executable prototype, ideally. Moreover the way back is provided, too (to some extend so far), so that Java sourcecode can be parsed and represented within UML.

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TogetherJ: a visual modeling platform

Published on 6/28/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

Borland Together for Eclipse offers a visual modeling platform designed to support architects, Java developers, UML designers, business process analysts, and data modelers.

Its a design tool with reverse-engineer capabilities, providing another kind of support for program comprehension.

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Creole: a Java visualizer

Published on 6/27/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

Creole is the term used to describe our plug-in to the Eclipse platform which integrates SHriMP with the Eclipse platform’s Java Development Tools (JDT) . With Creole you can explore your Java code visually allowing you to see its structure and the links (calls, accesses, etc) between its different pieces.

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SHriMP: a visualization technique for exploring software architecture

Published on 6/27/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

SHriMP is both an application and a technique, designed for visualizing and exploring software architecture and any other information space. SHriMP (Simple Hierarchical Multi-Perspective) is a domain-independent visualization technique designed to enhance how people browse and explore complex information spaces. Among the applications we are actively exploring is the exploration of large software programs, and the understanding of complex knowledge-bases (via the Protégé tool).

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Code Visual Editor

Published on 6/27/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

Code Visual Editor is a program editor integrating code browser, analyzer and documentation generator with code flowcharting and visualization. It can be used to browse, edit, document, visualize, understand and flowchart source code, supports almost all programming languages.

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Microsoft Live Collections

Published on 6/10/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

Microsoft Live latest update included a new feature called “Collections”: a tool which allows you to save your pushpins, search results, and other map notes into collections, which can then be shared with others.

ZoneTag: share your location tagged pictures

Published on 5/22/2006 in Diary and Links. 2 Comments

ZoneTag is a research prototype that aims to leverage the context available from cellular phones to create new experiences around media, and in particular, photographs. The name ZoneTag was inspired by Susan Sontag’s 1977 quote asserting that “Everything [in the world] exist to end up in a photograph”. Indeed, ZoneTag’s first tasks involve enabling users to capture, share, search (and find) as well as discover images from this excessively growing and accessible repository.

An early prototype release from ZoneTag is available from zonetag.research.yahoo.com. In this first release, for the Nokia Series 60 cameraphones platform, the application allows you to quickly and easily upload images from your camera phone to Flickr. The photos uploaded can be automatically annotated with the location (usually based on cell tower) in which they were taken.

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This project is very similar to Radar.

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Swisscom auto-id: a startup working on RFID tags

Published on 5/10/2006 in Links. Closed

Swisscom Auto-id is a spin-off of Swisscom telecommunication that aims at hitting the radio frequency tags business market. The main applications developed will target companies logistics:

Swisscom Auto-ID Services can help speed up your company’s supply management thanks to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. RFID, which allows high-speed automatic data recording using radio waves, is able to identify all manner of objects without direct contact, and can be used in applications such as logistics, inventory management and industrial automation.

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OpenGuides London: a collaborative tourist guide

Published on 3/8/2006 in General and Links. 1 Comment

OpenGuides is a network of free, community-maintained “wiki” city guides to which anyone can contribute. Here you can find lots of information about places to eat, drink or shop, ways of getting about the city, [major attractions]?, the Arts, hints for those unfamiliar with a certain city.

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Mobile GMaps in J2ME

Published on 2/28/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps and MSN Virtual Earth (Windows Live Local) maps and satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.

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Bio Mapping

Published on 2/28/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share and interpret their own bio data.

The Bio Mapping tool allows the wearer to record their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. This can be used to plot a map that highlights point of high and low arousal. By sharing this data we can construct maps that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited.

The picture below shows 6 months artist commission hosted by Independent Photography as part of ‘Peninsula’, a series of artist commissions on the Greenwich Peninsula, an emotion map of the area that explores people’s relationship with their local environment.

The project is set up as a series of participatory workshops that invite people to borrow a Bio Mapping device and go for a walk. The device measures the wearer’s Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is an indicator of emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. The resulting maps encourage personal reflection on the complex relationship between us, our environment and our fellow citizens. By sharing this information we can construct maps that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited.

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iSpecies.org: a species search engine

Published on 2/21/2006 in Diary and Links. Closed

Thanks to Nicolas, I found this nice search engine, called, iSpecies, which core idea is that web results can be grouped according to the species of the document. The engine uses several data sources, hacking on the aggregation and clustering of the data:

iSpecies uses web services to talk to source databases, extract data, and assemble a page for each species. The code makes extensive use of XML. Essentially, each web service returns XML in one form or another, and I use and XSL style sheets to transform the result into HTML.

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