Wikipedia Thesaurus Visualization now supports Silverlight 2!!

I'm pleased to announce the Silverlight 2 version Wikipedia Thesaurus Visualizer. It now provides much more rich user interface and supports many modern browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome!) on both Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X. Furthermore, we implemented many additional features in this release. Have a look our at our Web site for more detailed information.

http://wikipedia-lab.org/en/wiki/Wikipedia_Thesaurus_Visualizer

Twitter

I finally decided to start a twitter life.

http://twitter.com/napman1

I still have no idea how my twitter life works. I'm planning to post some information such as technologies that I'm using, the problems I'm facing, etc. I hope that it will be helpful information to know my current status.

Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt

Wikimania, the biggest international conference for Wikipedia community, will be held in July 17-19 and our research paper successfully has been accepted! We are glad to take part of the conference and I will give a full-presentation about our research work. I'm also planning to release a new product in the conference.

Bilingual Dictionary Extracted from Wikipedia

We are pleased to announce the release of our new research product named Wikipedia Bilingual Dictionary (WBD). WBD is a bilingual dictionary extracted from Wikipedia link structure analysis. It is not just analyzing inter language links but also other valuable information on hyperlinks in order to enhance the coverage of translations. In this research, our conviction that Wikipedia is a new valuable corpus for researches on machine translation and computational linguistics has been confirmed.

Have a look.

- http://wikipedia-lab.org:8080/WikipediaBilingualDictionary

An assistant professor at the Unviersity of Tokyo

My new position is an assistant professor of the center for knowledge structuring in the University of Tokyo. From today, I'm going to concentrate on AI researches more than ever. This is what I've wanted long time, so I'm simply exciting about this.

Feel free to contact me and visit my new lab. if you are interested in our activities.

Wikipedia Thesaurus Visualization now supports Java

We are proud to announce new feature in Wikipedia Thesaurus and its visualization system. It now supports visualization on your browser. Just click "NetVis" button in each concept to show the network view.

http://wikipedia-lab.org:8080/WikipediaThesaurusV2/

It supports both Japanese and English. Have fun.

NLP workshop in Korea

Microsoft Research Asia invited me to join a NLP workshop held in Korea, so I participated last week. This was the first time for me to join a workshop about NLP, so many things impressed me in various aspects. In fact, several problems that I was facing seem to be solved.

In the workshop I felt that, not surprisingly, many NLP researchers already realized the importance of the Social Web (Esp. Wikipedia) as a corpus for knowledge extraction. There are several good meetings with other active researchers in this research area. Some of them started researches on Wikipedia Mining recently. I believe that 2008 will be an exciting year for Wikipedia research more than last year.

Macworld keynote

I watched the keynote given by Steve Jobs.

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/f27853y2/event/index.html?internal=fj2l3s9dm

Here I show a summary of the keynote.

- Time capsule
A WIFI-built in HDD for Time machine.
- iPhone & iPod touch update
For me, iPod touch update is a good news. It supports Mail, Maps, Notes, Stocks, Weather from today Webclips and Lyrics as well.
iPhone & iPod support location detection feature for maps. The technology for location detection is very similar to PlaceEngine. Skyhook investigated the Wifi radio by cars with GPS.
- iTunes Movie Rental
$2.99 for library and $3.99 for new movies.
The international services will start in the late of 2008.
- Mac Book Air
A High-mobility Mac Book.
Thinest? Anyway, it has notable mobility. Multi-touch support sounds quite exciting.