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Lojban translation search “lojbo jufsisku”

by hagiwara on February 15, 2012 · 1 Comment

I have been working on a weekend project called “jufsisku” for the past few weeks. This project is to build a search engine where you can look up Lojban-English translations using queries in these two languages. You can try out the search here: http://lojban.lilyx.net/jufsisku/ I have shown the demo to a group of Japanese-speaking lojbanist [...]

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Using MeCab the Japanese Morphological Analyzer from Clojure

by hagiwara on July 30, 2011 · No Comments

The Japanese morphological analyzer MeCab can also be directly called from Clojure, too, by using its Java binding. I have, however, come across some pitfalls related to JNI in the process, so I’ll describe how I’ve overcome them in the following so that everyone else doesn’t have to stumble over the same issues. The first [...]

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Extracting Multilingual Parallel Sentences from tatoeba.org

by hagiwara on July 21, 2011 · 5 Comments

I recently found out that tatoeba.org is a pretty nice resource for collecting parallel text in many languages. The major reason why I love it is that the whole data is downloadable as a dump file, with all the sentences being under the creative commons license (although there are some mistakes in the sentences). Specifically, [...]

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Using SVM (Support Vector Machine) from Clojure

by hagiwara on July 2, 2011 · No Comments

Since Clojure is based on JVM, you can easily pick a publicly available library for Java (machine learning, multimedia processing, or whatever) and call it. Calling Java libraries is normally straightforward thanks to Clojure’s inter-operation functionalities, but you could spend hours reading the library’s API document and tweaking around your code accordingly, especially if you [...]

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Calculating N-gram Statistics in a MapReduce way using Clojure

by hagiwara on June 11, 2011 · No Comments

It’s only been one week since I began learning Clojure programming but I already started to like it! One of the many nice features of Clojure which I like the most is it’s parallel processing by “pmap” — a parallel version of “map”. Below is a simple demonstration how to use this parallel computation and [...]

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