Teacher Professional Development: Building Web Apps
I’m running a workshop today for High School teachers in the local area. The goal of the workshop is to provide an example framework for building simple web ...
I’m running a workshop today for High School teachers in the local area. The goal of the workshop is to provide an example framework for building simple web ...
Amplify is a project maintained by the State Library of NSW for crowdsourcing the transcription of Oral History recordings. It is being used to generate tran...
Our paper discussing Alveo in the context of reproducibility in language sciences is now available in Computer Speech & Language: DOI:10.1016/j.csl.2017....
Today’s problem was to write a wrapper for the MAUS automatic segmentation system in preparation for including it as a Galaxy tool. MAUS comes from Florian...
I’ve been working for a while now on adapting the Galaxy Workflow engine for use in speech analysis, specifically for acoustic phonetic analysis of vowel sou...
My introduction to Darwin was on a borrowed bike used to discover the streets around CDU and eventually making my way to the city and Midil Beach markets for...
As part of the Alveo project we’ve been using the Galaxy Workflow Engine to provide a web-based user-friendly interface to some language processing tools. Ga...
Authors: Deanna Wong, Steve Cassidy and Pam Peters
The Graph Annotation Format (GrAF) is the XML data exchange format developed for the model of linguistic annotation described in the ISO Linguistic Annotatio...
The DADA project is developing software for managing language resources and exposing them on the web. Language resources are digital collections of language ...
The Linguistic Annotation Framework defines a generalised graph based model for annotation data intended as an interchange format for transfer of annotations...
Steve Cassidy and Trevor Johnston.
I gave a talk last week introducing the Arduino platform to some MQ students and staff. It seemed to go well and there is a bit of interest in carrying on wi...
This is a project idea for an Honours student or similar. Please contact me if you’d like to follow this up.
Annotation data is stored and manipulated in various formats and there have been a number of efforts to build generalised models of annotation to support sha...
As part of DADA (and yes, that page is a bit out of date) I wanted to provide a Sparql endpoint to allow experimentation with querying the raw RDF annotation...
One of the perennial issues that is raised in student surveys is that of effective feedback. As part of our ongoing review of teaching, we identified feedbac...
RDF, the core data format for the Semantic Web, is increasingly being deployed both from automated sources and via human authoring either directly or through...
I’ve been using screencasts again this year in COMP249 (Web Technology) and have settled on a fairly stable way of producing them using Camtasia on Windows. ...
I have a PhD scholarship available for a project in applying Semantic Web technologies (RDF, Sparql, Annotea) to the Linguistic Annotation problem. Here’s an...
This is just to welcome any COMP249 (Web Technology) students who might visit following my link from the lecture notes. You’re all welcome to look around at ...
Here’s an excellent video talking about text, hypertext, touching on the internals of HTML and XML and how Web 2.0 has changed the role of the reader. The we...
So today I make my TV debut! A few weeks ago a film crew from Channel 10 came to shoot a segment for the CSIRO/Channel 10 kids science show SCOPE. The episod...
John Udell is taggins some of his del.icio.us links to podcasts with transcriptavailable, transcripts have been generated manually. This could be a nice sour...
My brothers are way more productive than me when it comes to generating cool websites. Via various routes we’ve all ended up working on the web, Patrick on w...
This is a potential project idea for an Honours or Masters student. It might also form the core of a PhD project.
Annotation - Spoken Word Services is another project that is providing web based annotation of audio recordings, this time in a learning environment.
Tom Coates describes a currently internal BBC intitative to have everyone annotate audio content flikr style. This is a very cool application and is like a r...
What's he building in there? What the hell is he building In there? He has subscriptions to those Magazines... He never waves when he goes by He's hiding som...
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Listening to Bjork’s Medulla, one track turns out to be a poem by e. e. cummings:
I’ve just implemented a matrix object type for Tcl, the sources are available here (matrix0.1-src.zip). The package implements a new object type for Tcl whic...
Gnowsis is a Semantic Web desktop System which means it aggregates various bits of personal data into an RDF store and provides a browser for the store. It i...
Augmenting Conversations Using Dual Purpose Speech Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner Cornelis M. Snoeck, Benjamin A. Wong, Daniel Ashbrook College...
I gave a talk last night at the MQ Technology Trends seminar series on the semantic web, my slides are here for those who wanted them.
So I’ve just started using Bloglines as a blog aggregator and it’s working well thanks to the Firefox plugin that makes subscription and seeing updates easy....
One of the annoying things that needs doing when organising a conference is to produce the proceedings. These days that means generating a CDROM filled with ...
SpeechBot is a is a search engine for audio & video content that is hosted and played from other websites. Recordings are indexed via speech recognition ...
So now there are two giggle users (to my knowledge) since I’ve encouraged James to keep a blog of how his research project on Topic segmentation in meetings ...
The RDF query/manipulation proposals are coming out of the woodwork on www-rdf-rules:
Here’s an interesting test to while away a few minutes. According to the The Political Compass I’m a Leftist Libertarian, just like Ghandi, Mandela and the D...
The world is moving quickly towards defining a path language for RDF and maybe for other more general directed graphs. Here’s a few references:
While it’s nice being the number two ‘Steve Cassidy’ on Google (above the porn star but below the voiceover artist!) being well indexed can have it’s down si...
Robert Barta at Bond Uni has a paper on XTMPath, Manipulating Topic Map Data Structures which I should look at a little further. I enjoyed talking with Rober...
Mark Pilgrim describes his implementation of a REST API for Atom, the RSS successor being developed by various folk. This appeals to my URL designer sensibi...
Nordstom
Paolo Ciancarini
Thomas Passin
Day 1 of the main conference saw an interesting range of papers from hard core modal logic applied to document markup to tips for making XSLT writing easier.
Having arrived in Montreal after an Airport Ordeal in Detroit and slept very well at the Bed and Breakfast I turned up at the Hilton a little late for Jonath...
We’re setting up a teleconferencing facility in order to collect data and experiment within our meeting room project. One of the problems is that we want to ...
A Working group in W3C is busy worrying about how to store and manage calendar data in RDF including converting the de-facto standard iCalendar format into R...
Since I bought my Dell Axim I’ve been looking for audio recording and playback products, since the supplied Windows Media software is pretty basic. Because o...
Looking at the 2003 NIST SR evaluations, while we’re too late to enter this year there is some useful data available, for example the Automatically Generated...
An article on Advogato describes the efforts of OSCOM to unify Open Source content management systems. Mentions Twingle -
Tim Bray talks eloquently about what Apple could do to make their IMS service a good web citizen. Including:
So this is Giggle, my weblog system which I’ve ripped off almost completely from Blosxom which is written in Perl. Why? Well, because I wanted to fiddle with...
JXPath - JXPath is a java api for traversing object graphs using an XPath like syntax. The collapse the notion of axis down to only ‘child’ which really beco...
Don Box’s Spoutlet: My love affair with RDF began in 1999 when I had to prepare a a tutorial on XML metadata formats for XTech. My RDF love affair was with t...
The International Children’s Digital Library Has 200 children’s books scanned for public access. I can’t see it because of the Java requirement though 🙁
XML-RPC case study
Don Park’s Blog say’s the net needs zero install extensible client platforms which .Net and java webstart aren’t. perhaps CANTCL can be something like that, ...
Open Source Applications Foundation - Vista prototype is another outlook killer, perhaps interesting this time as it’s based on an RDF database underneath an...
xmlhack: One tree isn’t enough talks about a couple of proposals for encoding overlapping trees.
In a thread on [Slashdot More on MIT OpenCourseWare](http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/22/1634209&mode=flat&tid=146) the ...
So, I’ve finally forwarded my Home Page from SHLRC to ICS, which I guess means that after 9 months here I’ve finally arrived, or rather it means that I’ve no...
Had a great dinner chat with Jean-Claude Wippler and Dan Steffan. JC is the author of MetaKit, Starkit and many other interesting things and was visiting Sy...
Discovered e4Graph which is a generalised storage system for directed graphs in C++ using MetaKit as the backend and providing C++ and scripting interfaces.
This book swings into my conciousness, first I find it while browsing for a new text for our XML course, then slashdot reviews it. They’re not entirely posit...
Our Silkie chicken Jo Jo laid her first egg today, joining Betty (an Australorp) who started last week. These chooks have been around for 7 months now withou...
Dasher is a new input method which uses an ngram language model to predict the next letter you want to enter but lets you select it by ‘flying’ through regio...
Here’s my first blog entry. The blog name is from a Charles Bukowski poem, I don’t so much identify with the content (as usual for him it’s about being drunk...
I’ll keep calling PM an arse-licker, vows Latham - smh.com.au…is why I like Australia.