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March 22, 2004

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Language-independent named entity recognition

http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2002/ner/

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/1915

Named entity extraction in Perl

Lingua::EN::NamedEntity

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/1914

total-difference

(defun sacha/total-difference (list)
  "Computes the sum of the differences between successive items in LIST."
  (let ((distance 0))
    (while (cdr list)
      (setq distance (+ (abs (- (car list) (car (cdr list)))) distance))
      (setq list (cdr list)))
    distance))

I used this to calculate the total distance travelled by a read/write
head given the list of tracks.

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/1913

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