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Archive for May, 2010

whymca 2010: so good!

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Just a small post to thanks everyone who took part to whymca 2010 conference. I specially want to thanks people who attend my and Marco‘s talk ‘HTML5 come strumento di sviluppo mobile’. Finally many kudos to all the organizers who managed to set-up this amazing conference.

A semantic experiment for separate good from bad.

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Yesterday was sunday and I came up with a fascinating idea: what happens if I use wordnet to measure the distance between two words ? By assigning weights to all the relation types and by navigate this relations graph I thought to be able to measure the distance between a word and the others in terms of the minimum sum of weights of the edges between each pair made of the chosen word and another.

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