2005年8月31日

Find out some nice courses materials

In the left links, I added three "concerned courses". They all were very good.
I had seen many wonderful courses. But I had not learned them carefully. So I believed I could list them in my blog. And I could study them often.

Just sharing to my blog readers! Welcome~!

2005年8月30日

Dinner with MSRA friends

We had dinner in DongBei again this evening. Guihong Cao would check out tomorrow. We had a farewell this evening. I remembered his angling on river icecap in winter night in Canada. It was a beautiful scene.
After our dinner, we had chatting on many interesting topics.
Nice dinner, nice talk!

2005年8月29日

Minipar使用方法:step by step

不知道各位有没有用过那个著名的Dekang Lin的英文下的依存分析工具Minipar。上午Yichen提起说不知道如何编译通过,考虑到过些日子我也会用到这个东西,我自告奋勇的把它放入VS7.0调试。本以为在当初调试C45R8经验的基础上能够很快完成这个工作,结果却迟迟调试不通。代码是Linux风格的,装上Cygwin后结果还是未能通过。刚才在Chengjie Sun的帮助下才解决掉这个问题。记得在咱们IR-BBS上有人问过类似的问题,我在这里给出运行成功下面的例子pdemo的全部过程。

1. 下载Minipar
在连接 http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/minipar.htm下填表得到minipar-0.5-Windows.tar
2. 解压
用Winrar解压后得到minipar-0.5-Windows的没有后缀名的文件,人工添加后缀为zip然后再用Winrar解压得到解压包
里面包含如下子文件夹

minipar-0.5-Windows
|-README
|-data
|-include
|-lib
|-pdemo

3. 设置环境变量
右键单击“我的电脑”,在“高级”中选择“环境变量”。新建变量“MINIPATH”,值为上面data的绝对路径,如“D:\MiniPar\minipar-0.5-Windows\data”。

4. 设置VC7.0
新建VC++7.0 Windows控制台空项目,添加pdemo下的cpp文件pdemo.cpp。
打开项目属性设置“Configuration Properites”下面的C/C++下的General中的Additional Include Directories,添加上面的include文件夹路径
打开项目属性设置“Configuration Properites”下面的Linker下的General中的Additional Library Directories,添加上面的lib下的debug文件夹路径;在同层下的Additional Dependencies中添上“minipar.lib Ws2_32.lib”(中间有空格)

5. 编译运行
Build后在DOS界面下进入对应的Debug下,输入"pdemo.exe -p "D:\MiniPar\minipar-0.5-Windows\data" ",即可初始化依存分析平台,在>后输入英文句子即可进行依存分析,如下

> Many students like programming.
(
E0 (() fin C * )
1 (Many ~ Det 2 det (gov student))
2 (students student N 3 s (gov like))
3 (like ~ V E0 i (gov fin))
E2 (() student N 3 subj (gov like) (antecedent 2))
4 (programming ~ N 3 obj (gov like))
5 (. ~ U * punc)
)
>


至此完成了全部的工作,MINIPAR的中间结果可以被用于其它程序中,可以用来很方便的找到句子中的依存结构。
以上步骤留做记录,便于以后查找。

2005年8月28日

幸福的时空:阅读《复杂》

很久没有用中文写blog了,现在心中一种不可名状的兴奋让我感觉用中文来和大家分享更恰当一些。这就是我近两日阅读《复杂》的感觉。
晚上一位朋友来看我的位置看望我,提及《复杂》时他很惊讶,想必你一定和他一样。其实我读的这本书和我们计算机中平时讲的算法的复杂性几乎没有关系。这本书的全称是《复杂──走在秩序与混沌边缘》(Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos)。连接就在我这个blog左侧的阅读列表里面。
这是一本电子书,所以阅读的只能是晚上在研究院的业余时间,回到寝室就不能看了。前一阵子阅读这本书的感觉是在讲经济学中的混沌现象以及建立桑塔费研究所的令人兴奋的经过。现在我已经阅读完了前六章,还剩下三章。这本书的撰写方式我的感觉有点散,每出现一位传奇的人物都会转移话题到这个人上半天,好不容易才将话题转回原来,然后继续介绍。整本书我想更多的是在介绍复杂性非线性系统的创立背景,其中的桑塔费研究所成了必须介绍的机构。其中包含了很多精英科学家,因此自然也就要好好介绍他们的经历。当然整本书还是在围绕复杂性系统而展开的,经济学是其中涉及到的第一个实例。
我为之兴奋的是其中对那些牛人的传记介绍。这些牛人们有一个共同的特点。那就是,他们都在作他们为之兴奋的事情,完成他们的研究和学习完全是一种主动的事情。其中介绍了分子自动机,遗传算法,经济非稳定网络等有趣的东西。他们的工作完全都是自主的,而且经常出现自己的想法和别人的想法虽然不同领域但是却非常类似的情况。这让他们的研究很富有激情,而且经常出现灵感。书中崭露出的是研究人员的本性,他们的工作是富有创造性的,而且都能让人在兴奋状态下运作。
中午吃完饭和刚从VS转为正式员工的石磊聊了一会儿。他对我现在在做的工作非常有兴趣。出于保密我现在不能在我的blog中介绍我在这边的工作。这个事情非常具有挑战性。从阅读《复杂》的过程中我找到了很多灵感。我想继续发掘和深化我的想法,让我负责的模块有质的飞跃。
《复杂》真是本好书。可惜我阅读它都是断断续续的,等读完这一遍后我一定会再读几遍。其中的内容让我彷佛回到了小学和中学时对科学的那种由衷的崇拜,也让我认识到了从事科学研究的乐趣。我会继续的。

2005年8月27日

Swimming in four hours

Jianguo Du, Yi Chen and I had been swimming between 13:00 to 17:20. It's the longest period of my swimming history. I felt little tired. I believed I would get up late tomorrow morning.

I met an elder man again. I met him in my all four times swimming. He said he was 75 now and swam every afternoon. He could swim 1500 meters. We three all admired him.

Good health is the basis of all. I felt good at swimming.

2005年8月26日

Wonderful BBQ of MSRA

After long time preparation, the BBQ(barbeque) of MSRA had come this evening. We all gathered at the front of Sigma Building. Our goal was Central Garden, Friendship Hotel. When it was 19:00, all the MSRA interns and Miscrosoft Student Summer Camp attendees came here. Our evening started. There were nearly 500 persons.

At the beginning, I met the four MSClub students of our HIT. They were Zhongqi Yang, Yongqing Xiang, Chao Zhang, Junheng Zhang. They were the current leaders of MSClub of HIT. They had come in Beijing before four days and would return back to Harbin tomorrow morning. We were very happy to meet each other. We had many group photos. I wishes them nice trip.

There were many programs of this evening. Most were of singing. And some interesting games were hold. The most excited was that our Libra Poster for our Ping Pong Club had won the award of "the Best of Best". We five Libra guys were all excited. Harry was humorous. He trumped like us and said some jokes to us. My mentor Ming Zhou was very happy seating around our NLC VSs. At the end, there were two dancing programs. Ming Zhou went to the stage twice and played with us. He said that was very interesting.

During the activity, I chatted with some friends and had group photos with them. Xu Sun, who was a VS of NLC, said that he had seen me in SWCL last year in Beijing Language University. He was the student of Houfeng Wang, who was the leader in anaphora resolution I thought. We discussed some problem on anaphora resolution. I had known some research situation of Houfeng Wang's group on Anaphora resolution. I planed to visit Dr. Houfeng Wang. Now Xu Sun's work in BeiDa was on Abbreviation Resolution. It was very important for Anaphora resolution and Coreference Resolution. It seemed that their works on Anaphora resolution were in deep level. We discussed some related works.

It's a nice evening. Thanks to MSRA!

2005年8月25日

Wonderful Presentation of Study Group

This afternoon, Guihong Cao and Shenghua Bao gave us two wonderful presentations respectively.

Guihong's topic was on his SIGIR 05 paper: Integrating Word Relationships into Language Models. As it's his own paper, he presented it in very detail. The main idea of his paper was combining co-occurrence and WordNet for Information Retrieval. In his talk, I knew that Lemur had the ability of language modeling. And it had three smoothing techniques. I had heard that it could be used for Information Retrieval. However, I heard its language modeling ability firstly. It's interesting and useful. I believed that I should mater more tools for NLP research. There was another measure for evaluation of information retrieval. It was non-interpolated average precision. It was used in TREC Evaluation.

Shenghua gave us a talk on Comparative Study of Name Disambiguation Problem Using a Scalable Blocking-based Framework. This paper was on Name Disambiguation. I thought it was a subtype of coreference resolution and could be viewed as person name coreference resolution. The only feature used was co-author of papers. There was a heuristic idea that we could do coreference resolution by web information. It was newly and could do lots of topics research.

Thanks them for their so nice talks. Next time, it was my turn to give presentation. There was only 13 days left. I should prepare it day by day.