Hi Philipp, Sounds good! Feel free to post your thoughts here and to submit pull requests to the repos you want to be involved into. Cheers,
On 3/17/15 4:31 PM, Philipp Dowling wrote: > Hey everyone, > > My name is Philipp, I'm from Germany and I'm happy to meet you guys! I > mostly do work in computational linguistics and NLP, so DBpedia was one > of the most interesting projects in GSoC this year for me. My main > strengths and/or interests are continuous space vector models, neural > networks and information retrieval. > > A little bit about me: I'm just about finished with my undergrad studies > in Munich, and will start my masters next. Most recently, I was in Hong > Kong for my B.Sc. thesis, conducting research on semantic MT evaluation. > I also work at a local startup, building data mining and knowledge > discovery systems. > > To be more specific about my interests for GSoC: I'm most interested in > tasks 5.15, 5.1, 5.9 and 5.12 (roughly in that order). > 5.15 especially overlaps a lot with research I've been doing for my > thesis, where I investigated the performance of continuous space models > such as Word2Vec as a replacement for discrete context vectors, with > very positive results. I got very familiar with different vector models > from this, and would love to now continue working on something like this > in a knowledge mining context. > I also got exposed to frame semantics a little in the same context, and > I'm currently working on knowledge mining, so 5.1 would also be a very > interesting project. > I'll come back with more specific questions when I've gotten a chance to > look at everything else in detail, but overall I'm very excited to start > getting to work! > > I'll get into some of the warm up tasks as soon as I get a chance. I > haven't worked with DBpedia much before, so it'll be interesting to dive > into the code base. > > Cheers, > Philipp Dowling > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbpedia-gsoc mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-gsoc > -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati Twitter: @hjfocs Skype: hell_j ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-gsoc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-gsoc
