For the next few months, we will be publishing small sets of customized vocabularies based on popular news items. The vocabularies will feature a set of new words which (fingers crossed) have never before existed in the common vocabulary known as the English language.

The vocabulary words and accompanying definitions are computer generated using a multi-step definition generator. Output of the generator will be enhanced and tweaked over time as new theories are tested and new ideas come to light. More information on the GTR Dictionary Project can be found here : GTR Dictionary Project.

For the next few months, we will be publishing small sets of customized vocabularies based on popular news items. The vocabularies will feature a set of new words which (fingers crossed) have never before existed in the common vocabulary known as the English language.

The vocabulary words and accompanying definitions are computer generated using a multi-step definition generator. Output of the generator will be enhanced and tweaked over time as new theories are tested and new ideas come to light. More information on the GTR Dictionary Project can be found here : GTR Dictionary Project.

I just had to throw another "web" in there somewhere.... I haven't seen this type of offering from anyone else yet, but the company ClearForest have made their text analysis and classification system "web enabled" so that others can analyze documents and get results in the form of XML documents.

They are even holding a "mash-up" contest to bring attention to their new service and to see how people can use the results of their system in some creative combination with other web services like Google maps etc.

With the release of the open source Firefox browser, numerous spin off projects have been launched building off the core Firefox browsing functionality. Two of the more interesting offshoots are Flock and Songbird.

Flock advertises itself as a "social browser" because of its built in support for many social networking services such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati and others. Songbird describes itself as a mishmash digital jukebox, web browser and media player with some interesting features for "playing the web".

As an accompaniment to their New Media Poetics and Poetry special issue, LEA will be hosting a series of online discussions .

What is the LEA New Media Poetics Special ?

Guest edited by Tim Peterson, the issue features Loss Pequeño Glazier, John Cayley with Dimitri Lemmerman, Lori Emerson, Phillippe Bootz, Manuel Portela, Stephanie Strickland, Mez, Maria Engberg and Matthias Hillner. Don't forget to scurry over to the equally exciting gallery, exhibiting works by Jason Nelson, Aya Karpinska, Daniel Canazon Howe, mIEKAL aND, CamillE BacoS, Nadine Hilbert and Gast Bouschet.

Fun times all around ! Google has finally released "version 1" of their N-gram word data sets through the Linguistic Data Consortium. For $150 US, you too can own the following on a 6 DVD set:

File sizes: approx. 24 GB compressed (gzip'ed) text files



Number of tokens:    1,024,908,267,229
Number of sentences:    95,119,665,584
Number of unigrams:         13,588,391
Number of bigrams:         314,843,401
Number of trigrams:        977,069,902
Number of fourgrams:     1,313,818,354
Number of fivegrams:     1,176,470,663

A verb conjugating system allows a user to input a form of a verb and display the verb forms. The verb conjugating system allows the user to input the infinitive form or non-infinitive forms of a verb. When a user inputs a non-infinitive form of a verb, the verb conjugating system identifies a corresponding base form of the verb. The verb conjugating system then uses the base form to retrieve and display the verb forms for the verb. The verb conjugating system may highlight the non-infinitive form of the verb within the displayed verb forms to assist the user in locating the verb form of interest.

Google Research announced today that they will be releasing their N-gram data to the public. N-gram models are a type of statistical model used to predict the occurance likelihood of the next item in a sequence, in this case, the items are words. N-gram models are used in a number of computational linguistics tasks like translation, part of speech tagging and word sense disambiguation.

A funny clip from the VH1 SuperGroup reality series which I think typifies the verbal branding attempts of most bands. The show documents the formation of the next "supergroup" featuring Ted Nugent, Scott Ian, Sebastian Bach, Evan Seinfeld and Jason Bonham who are "poised to re-conquer the rock world". This clip centers around the naming of the band. Sebastian Bach comes up with the name which he thinks is perfect.

I came to the nora project via a mention of it on the Text Analytics mailing list. The goal of the project is to support Humanities scholars in the interpretation of literary works. I had a look at the demo video which shows the use of the noraVis prototype data mining and visualization software.

The demo video can be viewed here .