On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Thilo Goetz wrote:
> I have a little bit of background in applying ML to various
> NLP tasks such as text classification, POS tagging and
> entity detection. 

Certainly that is interesting for us.


> Would these kinds of feature selection tasks be in scope for Mahout, or
> would you consider that a separate problem to be dealt with elsewhere?

Sure - if someone wants to work on feature selection, we would be happy to 
welcome him in our project.


> Anyway, I'll certainly hang out here and see where this is
> going.  If things are happening around text/NLP, I may be able
> to contribute.

Glad to have you here! I am especially happy to have someone from the UIMA 
project over here.


> I'd also like to mention that over in the UIMA incubator
> project, we have a sandbox project going that does Hidden Markov
> Model-based POS tagging, with promising results.  Not sure if
> there can be any synergies there. 

Before going to Apache we actually thought about integrating our results as 
UIMA components - if that turns out to be possible. So I guess, there 
certainly will be synergies.
 

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