Collaborative work: One step ahead with web Office

Officially joining the browser-based productivity game, Microsoft late Monday released the browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. The Office Web Apps, as the programs are dubbed, are slimmed down versions of the desktop counterparts, allowing for document viewing, sharing, and lightweight editing. See source post here.

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Tools: JGraphT

The Stanford Parser just returns a list of dependencies between word tokens. To manipulate the dependencies, we will almost certainly want to put them in a graph data structure. We are going to try this using JGraphT. JGraphT is a free Java graph library that provides mathematical graph-theory objects and algorithms. JGraphT supports various types [...]

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Chromium: Peek at the Native Client SDK

Henry Bridge, product manager for Native Client introduces the developer preview of Native Client’s sdk. For more information go here.

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Semantic search engines on the wild: DeepDyve

DeepDyve DeepDyve was founded in 2005 by scientists who shared the vision of simplifying the research process. Growing itself to become the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research, through direct collaboration with the industry’s and publishers. DeepDyve has launched a free search engine, aimed at students, academics, and knowledge workers, that [...]

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Semantic search engines on the wild: Sensebot

Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts. SenseBot (Beta) is a semantic search engine that generates a text summary of multiple Web pages(Multi Document summarization) on the topic of your search query. It uses text mining and multidocument summarization to extract sense from Web pages and present it to [...]

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Eclipse Labs Beta

We use Eclipse as our main hub for software development, and the news of the creation of a brand new “Eclipse Labs” brings us joy. Now you ask what is a Eclipse Lab, what can and do with with, why is it usefull? Eclipse Labs allows you to very quickly create an open source project [...]

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Semantic search engines on the wild: Kosmix

Kosmix Kosmix calls itself a guide to the Web. In a classic search engine, web navigation is split in 2 targets, Search and Browse. Search allows to research specific information, and use it as navigation guide to pages. Kosmix focus on providing a browsing service. Kosmix organizes all the information on the Web so that [...]

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Tools: The Wumpus Search Engine

Wumpus is an information retrieval system developed at the University of Waterloo (namely Charles Clarke and Stefan Buttcher). Its main purpose is to study issues that arise in the context of indexing dynamic text collections in multi-user environments. The intended use of Wumpus is two-fold. It can be used as an ordinary information retrieval system, [...]

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Tools: WebGlimpse

Freely available software from the University of Arizona, Webglimpse is a site search software includes a web administration interface, remote link spider, and the powerful Glimpse file indexing and query system. This tools allow you to add sophisticated search capability to your site. Webglimpse is highly scalable and the code is open, mature, widely used, [...]

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Semantic search engines on the wild: Powerset

Powerset Powerset is a natural language search engine that can find targeted answers to user questions (as opposed to keyword based search). For example, when confronted with a question like “Which U.S. state has the highest income tax?”, conventional search engines ignore the question phrasing and instead do a search on the keywords “state”, “highest”, [...]

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