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Posted to user@mahout.apache.org by Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> on 2010/01/13 21:28:38 UTC
Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles as a committer on Mahout. I hope you'll join me in offering Benson a warm welcome.
Benson, Lucene tradition is that new committers provide a little bit of a background about who they are, so feel free to step up and do so.
Cheers,
Grant
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by David Stuart <da...@progressivealliance.co.uk>.
Congrats,
Something to aspire to
On 13 Jan 2010, at 21:28, Jake Mannix wrote:
> Welcome Benson - no more waiting for people to commit your many great
> patches! :)
>
> -jake
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>wrote:
>
>> The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles as a
>> committer on Mahout. I hope you'll join me in offering Benson a warm
>> welcome.
>>
>> Benson, Lucene tradition is that new committers provide a little bit of a
>> background about who they are, so feel free to step up and do so.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Grant
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Jake Mannix <ja...@gmail.com>.
Welcome Benson - no more waiting for people to commit your many great
patches! :)
-jake
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>wrote:
> The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles as a
> committer on Mahout. I hope you'll join me in offering Benson a warm
> welcome.
>
> Benson, Lucene tradition is that new committers provide a little bit of a
> background about who they are, so feel free to step up and do so.
>
> Cheers,
> Grant
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Jake Mannix <ja...@gmail.com>.
Welcome Benson - no more waiting for people to commit your many great
patches! :)
-jake
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>wrote:
> The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles as a
> committer on Mahout. I hope you'll join me in offering Benson a warm
> welcome.
>
> Benson, Lucene tradition is that new committers provide a little bit of a
> background about who they are, so feel free to step up and do so.
>
> Cheers,
> Grant
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Dawid Weiss <da...@gmail.com>.
Congratulations, Benson!
D.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles as a committer on Mahout. I hope you'll join me in offering Benson a warm welcome.
>
> Benson, Lucene tradition is that new committers provide a little bit of a background about who they are, so feel free to step up and do so.
>
> Cheers,
> Grant
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Robin Anil <ro...@gmail.com>.
Welcome Benson!
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>.
that paper's new to me.
Our work combines Miller&Guinness on perceptrons and entities with
Cramer on passive agressive, plus some secret sauce. I'm not in a
position to open source it just now, but that may change.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Olivier Grisel
<ol...@ensta.org> wrote:
> 2010/1/14 Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> If there's one NLP thing I know something about, now, it is named
>> entity extraction with averaged perceptrons and passive-aggressive
>> training. This has the advantage of being mathematically trivial
>> unless you want to prove that it works, which is as about as useful as
>> proving that bumblebees can (or can't) fly.
>
> This soounds very interesting.
>
> A quick googling gave me the following paper:
>
> A New Perceptron Algorithm for Sequence Labeling with Non-local Features
> by Jun’ichi Kazama and Kentaro Torisawa
>
> http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D07/D07-1033.pdf
>
> Any other pointer to a paper or sample open source code?
>
> --
> Olivier
> http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://code.oliviergrisel.name
>
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Olivier Grisel <ol...@ensta.org>.
2010/1/14 Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>:
>
> If there's one NLP thing I know something about, now, it is named
> entity extraction with averaged perceptrons and passive-aggressive
> training. This has the advantage of being mathematically trivial
> unless you want to prove that it works, which is as about as useful as
> proving that bumblebees can (or can't) fly.
This soounds very interesting.
A quick googling gave me the following paper:
A New Perceptron Algorithm for Sequence Labeling with Non-local Features
by Jun’ichi Kazama and Kentaro Torisawa
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D07/D07-1033.pdf
Any other pointer to a paper or sample open source code?
--
Olivier
http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://code.oliviergrisel.name
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>.
Ah, well, a longer story.
We sell segmenters lemmatizers that plug into Lucene. Until recently,
JNI all the way down. We've delivered a new version to a customer that
does some European languages entirely in Java, and we expect to be
able to do this for many more languages this year.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Jason Rutherglen
<ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats Benson!
>
> Basis primarily uses a JNI wrapper to integrate with Lucene? I'm
> indexing using Hadoop and it'd be great if it were all in Java... So
> yeah, "We shall see". :)
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm a somewhat grizzled software guy. My background is mostly making
>> sense of big, messy, piles of code. (If confusing, I clarify; if clear
>> ...)
>>
>> I've spent a lot of time on internationalization and performance
>> tuning. Over the last year I've had a sort of crash course in NLP.
>> Basis Technology, where I work, has always had a certain amount of NLP
>> going on, but it's become a more and more important part of what we
>> do. In spite of my status as a very, very, rusty mathematician I do my
>> best to keep up.
>>
>> If there's one NLP thing I know something about, now, it is named
>> entity extraction with averaged perceptrons and passive-aggressive
>> training. This has the advantage of being mathematically trivial
>> unless you want to prove that it works, which is as about as useful as
>> proving that bumblebees can (or can't) fly.
>>
>> At Apache my center of gravity is probably CXF (web services), which I
>> wandered into while contributing code to automatically generate
>> Javascript clients for web services.
>>
>> Ironically, Basis owns a lot of code which is/was built by people who
>> believe just the opposite of the Mahout motto -- that cloud
>> distribution can overcome the inherent performance disadvantage of
>> Java, leaving you with all the other advantages.
>>
>> We shall see.
>>
>
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Jason Rutherglen <ja...@gmail.com>.
Congrats Benson!
Basis primarily uses a JNI wrapper to integrate with Lucene? I'm
indexing using Hadoop and it'd be great if it were all in Java... So
yeah, "We shall see". :)
Jason
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a somewhat grizzled software guy. My background is mostly making
> sense of big, messy, piles of code. (If confusing, I clarify; if clear
> ...)
>
> I've spent a lot of time on internationalization and performance
> tuning. Over the last year I've had a sort of crash course in NLP.
> Basis Technology, where I work, has always had a certain amount of NLP
> going on, but it's become a more and more important part of what we
> do. In spite of my status as a very, very, rusty mathematician I do my
> best to keep up.
>
> If there's one NLP thing I know something about, now, it is named
> entity extraction with averaged perceptrons and passive-aggressive
> training. This has the advantage of being mathematically trivial
> unless you want to prove that it works, which is as about as useful as
> proving that bumblebees can (or can't) fly.
>
> At Apache my center of gravity is probably CXF (web services), which I
> wandered into while contributing code to automatically generate
> Javascript clients for web services.
>
> Ironically, Basis owns a lot of code which is/was built by people who
> believe just the opposite of the Mahout motto -- that cloud
> distribution can overcome the inherent performance disadvantage of
> Java, leaving you with all the other advantages.
>
> We shall see.
>
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>.
I'm a somewhat grizzled software guy. My background is mostly making
sense of big, messy, piles of code. (If confusing, I clarify; if clear
...)
I've spent a lot of time on internationalization and performance
tuning. Over the last year I've had a sort of crash course in NLP.
Basis Technology, where I work, has always had a certain amount of NLP
going on, but it's become a more and more important part of what we
do. In spite of my status as a very, very, rusty mathematician I do my
best to keep up.
If there's one NLP thing I know something about, now, it is named
entity extraction with averaged perceptrons and passive-aggressive
training. This has the advantage of being mathematically trivial
unless you want to prove that it works, which is as about as useful as
proving that bumblebees can (or can't) fly.
At Apache my center of gravity is probably CXF (web services), which I
wandered into while contributing code to automatically generate
Javascript clients for web services.
Ironically, Basis owns a lot of code which is/was built by people who
believe just the opposite of the Mahout motto -- that cloud
distribution can overcome the inherent performance disadvantage of
Java, leaving you with all the other advantages.
We shall see.
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by deneche abdelhakim <ad...@gmail.com>.
Welcome =D
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Drew Farris <dr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations Benson. It is wonderful to see your great work in the
> mahout-math (and the future mahout-collections?) come together quickly.
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>wrote:
>
>> The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles as a
>> committer on Mahout. I hope you'll join me in offering Benson a warm
>> welcome.
>>
>> Benson, Lucene tradition is that new committers provide a little bit of a
>> background about who they are, so feel free to step up and do so.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Grant
>
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Drew Farris <dr...@gmail.com>.
Congratulations Benson. It is wonderful to see your great work in the
mahout-math (and the future mahout-collections?) come together quickly.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>wrote:
> The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles as a
> committer on Mahout. I hope you'll join me in offering Benson a warm
> welcome.
>
> Benson, Lucene tradition is that new committers provide a little bit of a
> background about who they are, so feel free to step up and do so.
>
> Cheers,
> Grant
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Isabel Drost <is...@apache.org>.
On Wed Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles
> as a committer on Mahout.
Welcome Benson - thanks to all the great work you have done so far for
the mahout-math stuff. Looking forward to working together with you.
Isabel
Re: Welcome Benson Marguiles as Mahout Committer
Posted by Dawid Weiss <da...@gmail.com>.
Congratulations, Benson!
D.
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> The Lucene PMC is pleased to welcome the addition of Benson Marguiles as a committer on Mahout. I hope you'll join me in offering Benson a warm welcome.
>
> Benson, Lucene tradition is that new committers provide a little bit of a background about who they are, so feel free to step up and do so.
>
> Cheers,
> Grant