Markov N-Gram Models, C# 3.0, F#, Professorship


Here is a very short update on what I have been doing recently.

1) Thanks to the excellent quality of the introduction to computational linguistics course I am taking this term, I get to learn a great many new stuff which boost the development tempo of my library. Here is a particularly interesting case: C# Markov N-Gram Models. These are soon going to find some interesting application in my experimental HMM-based PoS-Tagger.

2) C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5 have been released. I'm truly astonished with the improved ease of programming this iteration delivers. Waiting eagerly to lay my hands on some quality books on both C# and .NET 3.5.

3) F#! After watching WDr. Brian Beckman's latest video on Channel 9 about monads I decided to learn F#. Parallelization libraries like WParallel FX might provide all that is needed to seamlessly parallelize execution but learning something natively functional seems to be a great asset for the very near future.

4) I had the chance yesterday to attend PDFa series of talks held by our faculty to decide on the new name to join our department of computational linguistics as a professor.

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