A new version of OAR is ready. This version has a number of updates including a revamped web aspect that includes classes for searching Google and Yahoo web and image search. This version will break much code previously based on OAR. This means that you should skim the code and see if the updates are [...]

Version 0.6 of the OAR Information Retrieval library has been uploaded. This new version offers only a small amount of changes including a new WeightingScheme which includes some implementations of TFIDF and OKAPI BM25. Download it here.

LN3GS Software is now officially closed. All the software can be found here under Software. I will keep the LN3GS name and use it, but it is no longer a company.

With my new job starting in January, I decided that best course of action is to officially shutdown my software company LN3GS. The freeware that I created will be added to this site and this site will be redesigned to be more than just a personal research blog.

I have accepted a position as a Computational Intelligence Researcher at GE Global Research.

The last vestiges of my life in Japan are now over. The password for my University of Tokushima email address has been changed, so that I cannot access it. Although I do not believe it will happen, if you do happen to receive an email from davidb@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp it is NOT from me. My new email [...]

I finished!
I have graduated with my Ph.D. in Information Science and System Engineering from The University of Tokushima!!

I have recently been a co-researcher on a paper about Chinese Semantic Dependency Analysis that has been accepted by the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing. Congratulations to my co-researcher and the first author Jiajun Yan.

I have been invited to be a part of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Computing as a program committee member.
http://www.ic-ic.org/2007/index.htm

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