Looking through the J list archives, I don't see any interest in this line of work. Are there any active projects in information retrieval or computational semantics using J? Can you think of reasons why it might not be a good choice?
Development is usually in C++ or Java, but I've been thinking that J or K/Q might be a good choice, allowing greater programmer productivity without sacrificing performance. The vector space model[1] underlies much work in information retrieval[2] and computational semantics[3]. Two good surveys of the application of matrix methods in this area are Berry[4] and Elden[5] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space_model [2] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene [3] e.g. https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/ [4] Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval 2/e (2005) [5] Matrix Methods in Data Mining and Pattern Recognition (2007) -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
