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. -- Absence makes the heart grow fonder. -- Sextus Aurelius |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http://www.isabel-drost.de> /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM: <xmpp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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