Version 0.2 of the Oar Information Retrieval Library has been posted. It includes many new changes and additions including, k-Nearest Neighbor and Naive Bayesian Classifiers.

GaLib has been updated to version 0.2. The new version includes a new method in the Chromosome class and some new operators and type specific implementations.

The source for GaLib version 0.1 has been posted on the Evolutionary Computation page of this site.

I have started working on a basic C# genetic algorithm library. It will be made available on this site soon under the GPL license. It should provide the basic classes and algorithms needed for most simple uses. I will be personally using the library to create a GA based classifier.

In my current research, I am dealing with finding emotion in news articles. The hope is to add this information to a network that details relationships between entities, topics and categories. The first step is to decide on the basic emotion categories. I have defined 14 emotion categories (5 negative emotions, 5 positive emotions and [...]