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Setting up my Project Website
One of the assessed deliverables for my MSc project is a project website, so I’ve been having a bit of a setup session this weekend. The objectives set for the website are a little… what’s the word… vague? See what you think: A multipage website summarizing the work so far. – Objectives – Deliverables – [...]
In: Development, MSc, Project · Tagged with: mscproject
Planning my Project
It’s been a bit quiet on crossedstreams.com for the past month or so. Between lots of great stuff going on at work keeping me very busy, some Stag Do related shenanigans and working on my project, here hasn’t been much time for blogging. In order to complete my MSc, I need to complete a project [...]
In: MSc, Project · Tagged with: mscproject
Ubuntu, Fedora or Mint?
About a month ago after I finished my last module, I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu release, 11.04 or ‘Natty Narwhal’. My first impressions over the course of a week or two were sufficient to have me go looking elsewhere. There were some big problems. Ubuntu 11.04 The new Unity interface, whilst it’s very pretty, [...]
Essays on the State of the Art and Future of Text Mining
The coursework for this Text Mining module has been quite challenging. Each week we had a task to complete, along the lines of evaluating training of a part-of-speech tagger (a piece of software that tries to tag words with the part of speech they serve), or create a named entity recogniser (a piece of software [...]
Text Mining – Day 4
Between prep for my MSc. project, getting married, snowed under at work, starting the my next MSc. module and being full of cold, there hasn’t been much time for blogging… So today was day 4 of the Text Mining module. As a friend put it, “Text Mining? What – like using grep?” Text Mining is [...]
In: Computer Science, MSc