Web Spam, Linguistics and Edit Distance Matrices

I attended this talk on Explporing Linguistic Features for Web Spam and Using String Distance Matrices to Lemmatization of Polish Names. So will write some key points from the topics.

Explporing Linguistic Features for Web Spam:

Task is tough due to:

• Complexity
  
• Scale , and
• Adaptive nature of spam

The point of interest to me was use of CORLEONE developed by JRC, Ispra. As the attributes generated by this system seem of some interest in regard to my reserach. I think I can take a clue from their reseach and use it for mine.

Also they were using GENERAL INQUIRER by harvard university, but I am not much interested in it.

Using String Distance Matrices to Lemmatization of Polish Names:

Task was about synonym and homonym names.

The impotant thing that I liked in this Talk was DISTANCE MATRICES. I will just write a bit about these. There are different categories to these:

• Edit Distance Matrices: these include Leveshtein Distance, Bag Distance, Needleman-Wunsch, Smith-Waterman, Smith-Waterman with Affine Gaps
• q-Grams
• Longest Common Substring, Jaro, Jaro-Winker
• Recursive String Distance Matrices: These include Monge-Elkan, Sorted Tokens, Permuted Tokens

That is an outline of what I have learnt from todays talk given by Marcin Sydow at Trinity College.

Sat Shri Akal
Writing after a while. It was a nice time. away from all the tensions, free of worries and work, with a friend who have met after a long time, nearly three years. It was a thrill filled and nice time in Paris. Went to some very famous land marks there.
Although it was a short tour, but enjoyable and memorable one. Went to Eiffel Tower. It was really wonderful experience there, a chilling one as well. I thought it to be maximum of chilling time that I would come across. Next day went for some shopping and went to Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and some other landmarks nearby.
Next day it was Disneyland. It was really fun being among the children, with a glow on the faces, enjoying each and every moment. I was missing someone while being there, who would have enjoyed loads and loads over there.
On the last day we went to the Da Vinci Code Pyramid, Louvre as they call it. It was short break, but I will remember it for long.
Another memorable happening, not a nice one though, was awaiting me.

Going Towards the Right Direction

Sat Shri Akal
After three months or so of insight into the frameworks and the literature, now we are goiing a step ahead and closer to the exact thing we are to work on. Although this was decided a week ago, but being bit lazy and not willing to write the blog, I am writing it today. This was the week of induction into research as Post Grad. It was quite informative and motivating as well.
Rest the good news is that I will go to India soon enough and for long enough.

A feeling never felt

Sat Shri Akal
Its all over but surely it was all so nice and truly it was a feeling I have never felt before, a feeling of achievement, a nervousness and missing something. Surely I was missing those eyes in the audience which I would have loved to be looking at me and feeling proud and honoured to see me. But it was really worth coming and cherishing the moment with robe on and receiving the degree in front of such a huge audience.
Sat Shri Akal

A moment long awaited

Sat Shri Akal
I am back amidst all those people, with whom I have spent most of my past two years. Its nice and feel like being home not exactly at home, but definitely I like being with them. I arrived here two days ago.
Tomorrow will be the day, which I have waited for a long. Its my graduation day. I wanted my parents to be there, so that I can see that feeeling in the eyes. I wanted them to feel proud looking at their son, achieving something that they have supported all out, knowing nothing about what it is.
It is still a big day for me and all those who wanted me to be here, and go further. No one will be there but I know that they will all be very happy for this achievement.
I am very thankful to GOD for showering His blessing and making me able to stand up to this achievement. Then for this I thank my parents, friends(all who have always been there and some who met me during this), and also to some who have been my beacon, inspiration and all who prayed for this achievement. I say this is the due to the hard work of my teachers, right through the life. Without anyone of these I would have never achieved what I am feeling so happy about. I would like to thank, although its not enough, someone who held me when I was, yes at one point I did, thinking to quit this.
GOD and all of them being there again, they will be, I will achieve few more of such days and hopefully some of these people will be there with me on such days, not to mention GOD always being there.
Will say more, maybe tomorrow.
Sat Shri Akal

sleepless nights

Sat Shri Akal
I have not been able to keep blogging everyday. I thought to do it that way when I started writing it.
Anyways, I am having sleepless nights all these days. Nothing else but just programming. I have never been into this thing like this and that too, so regularly.
I have added this blog to my ORKUT, hoping that it may help me updating it everyday or so. Something about orkut. I am trying to unite all from JNV Patiala in the Community. I send message or scrap to quite a lot of student whom I found on Orkut. But only two or three have so far joined the community. That is not so cool but atleast some one or two to start with. Hopefully all of them will join.

kujh mileya

Sat Shri Akal
Ajj di eh raat kaafi kujh de rahi hai. Jo v kujh ajj net te mileya hai eh sab shayad agge chal k mere kam aavega.