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NLP for all languages
Cross post from http://idibon.com/nlp-for-all/ You couldn’t understand all the world’s digital communications, even if you had access and time. Online communication continues to grow but English’s...
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How the world is changing
Cross-post from http://idibon.com/how-the-world-is-changing/ By tracking shifts in communication over time, we gain insight into how people view the world and how those views change. This is more...
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Tracking Epidemics with Natural Language Processing and Crowdsourcing
The world’s greatest loss of life is due to infectious diseases, and yet people are often surprised to learn that no one is tracking all the world’s outbreaks. The first indication of a new outbreak is...
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The evolution of the expert
Cross-post from http://www.idibon.com/machine-learning-and-the-rise-of-the-expert/ This year’s Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) just wrapped up. It is the top conference for...
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Why you should not use Twitter in a disaster
It’s safe to say that I know more about social media in disasters than pretty much anyone. I’ve helped run disaster response efforts utilizing social media in English, French, Haitian Kreyol, Urdu,...
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The Top 10 NLP Conferences
Cross-post from http://idibon.com/top-nlp-conferences-journals/ Like every engineering field, there are top conferences for Natural Language Processing (NLP) with around 20% acceptance rates and there...
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Workshop on Social Impact Through Big Data & Crowdsourcing
Cross-post from http://idibon.com/workshop-on-social-impact-through-big-data-crowdsourcing/ I enjoyed taking part in the workshop on Social Impact Through Big Data & Crowdsourcing this week at the...
View ArticleImproving privacy with language technologies
Cross-post from http://idibon.com/privacy-with-language-technologies/ One downside of the kind of technologies that we build at Idibon is that they can be used to compromise people’s privacy and, by...
View ArticleNew investment for Idibon!
Cross-post from http://idibon.com/new-investment-idibon/ We are excited to announce that Idibon (the company where I am founder/CEO) has received $5.5 million in investment! This will allow us to...
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The tech community’s response to Ebola
Cross-post from http://idibon.com/the-tech-communitys-response-to-ebola/ I gave an interview this week about the response to the recent Ebola outbreak, talking about best practices for privacy, the...
View ArticleI built a bicycle!
Over a couple of months, and 15 hours total work, I built my dream bike: a touring bike that is robust enough to take around the world, but with parts that I can replace anywhere: I’ve cycled across...
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Off-road touring bike review
This is the post I promised reviewing the components on the bicycle that I built for off-road touring. Bicycle components pre-build! I’ve crossed 20+ countries by bicycle, mostly off-road, and after...
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Bias in Reporting Cricket?
I woke up extra early this morning here in San Francisco time to watch the biggest cricket rivalry: Australia vs England. Two Australian players stole the show, Chris Rogers and Steven Smith, both...
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Languages at ACL this year
The largest annual conference in computational linguistics is in Beijing this year. Over the next few days, the world’s top researchers will present their latest research. Here are the languages they...
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The fourth generation of machine learning: Adaptive learning
Cross-post from http://idibon.com/the-fourth-generation-of-machine-learning-adaptive-learning/ The fourth generation of machine intelligence, adaptive learning, creates the first truly integrated human...
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Recap: Africa Tech Summit and MEST
Cross-post from: http://idibon.com/africa-tech-summit-mest/ I attended the Africa Tech Summit (http://afritech.com/) and gave an invited talk at the MEST school for entrepreneurs...
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Idibon AI processes world-scale text data … on a single computer!
Cross-post from: http://idibon.com/ai-for-world-scale-data-on-a-laptop/ Idibon is announcing the launch of a new Machine Learning library, IdiML, for ultra-low latency text analytics at scale....
View ArticleAAAS: Understanding Speakers of 7,000 Languages
Cross-post from http://idibon.com/aaas-understanding-speakers-of-7000-languages/ February 21 was International Mother Language Day. With the top researchers in language technology last week, we marked...
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Facebook’s “Reactions” is in the 10% most widely spoken languages, still...
Cross-post from: http://idibon.com/facebooks-reactions-are-in-the-10-most-widely-spoken-languages-still-outnumbered-by-the-amish/ Facebook has just extended the “Like” button with five new reactions:...
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Thank you to all Idibon contributors
This post is a profound thank you to everyone who has contributed to Idibon, whether as a staff member, advisor, investor, partner or client. When we founded Idibon four years ago, Silicon Valley...
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