Posted on July 17, 2007 by ragrawal
text-mining comparison tool
Currently, many projects in GeoVista center (at Pennsylvania State University) deal with unstructured textual data and require parsing of space, time, and entitiy information from textual document. Trying to compare one of our text-mining tool with other projects, I stumbled across many freely available text-mining tools. However, comparing them directly wouldn’t have made sense as they offer different levels of functionality. [...]
Filed under: Geo-Locations, Text Mining, Web Service | Tagged: Comparison | 7 Comments »
Posted on July 15, 2007 by ragrawal
Yesterday, an article by Shneiderman on “visualization mantra” provoked me to think about “software development mantra”. For last 3 years, I am involved with the development of Memento – an online bibliography management solution. During this time, I learnt a lot about software development in general and about MVC architecture in particular. To some extend, [...]
Filed under: Design Pattern | Tagged: Mantra | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 14, 2007 by ragrawal
One of the recurring questions on CakePHP forum is “what is the best editor for PHP”. Although, for years, I have been a zealot of “Macromedia Dreamweaver”, recently I tried Eclipse and soon I fall in love with it. The power of Eclipse mainly comes from thousands of plugins it has to offer. Using eclipse, [...]
Filed under: General, PHP | Tagged: Eclipse, Software Development Environment | 2 Comments »
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