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Fishing for Further SuggestionsCultureNet faculty are always bending the spines of books and scrolling through online publications - new and old - that speak to our shared interest in the ways that technology gets around to shaping us and us technology. A few titles recently traded between CNET faculty include:Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, Steel (1997)Andrew Feenberg's Transforming Technology

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.

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.

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 .