Leaving tonight for Austin + NYC. 10 days. Meeting the great lord eddd for an old-fashioned SigFood trail :-).

IBM TICL is something we made in our free time as a by-product of our research project earlier this year. It has now been released for free download and use on IBM Alphaworks. Expanding to IBM Tool for Interactive text Classification and Labeling, TICL is an interactive interface that enables you to create, validate, train, and refine a text ( Read more... )

The Holy Grail of text classification research is not to train a 100% accurate classification system, rather, it is to understand our own thought process better to produce consistent manually labeled data to train the system on.

In other news, my thesis is back from the two external examiners with good positive reviews and recommendations of ( Read more... )

Finally! :-). Here is a draft - E&OE ( Read more... )

This is a copy of my PhD thesis synopsis. It is about 10 pages long and is like an extended abstract. The title of my thesis is currently: "Inter-class relationships in text classification". As usual I found some things I'd like to have changed before submitting ;-). Thesis draft copy coming up in a couple of days.

Text classification is an active research area motivated by many real-world applications. Even so, research formulations and prototypes often make assumptions that are not suitable for deployment. For example, in many real applications, the set of class labels keeps evolving, continual user feedback must be integrated into the classifier, and test ( Read more... )

Ethiopean refugees have run away from the captial city of Delhi, the clutches of the stark raving attention seeking Asterix, Obelix and the like, and have taken refuge in the city of Bombay for a few days ( Read more... )

This is it. Last day in IIT. Last day in Bombay ( Read more... )

So I am sitting at my desk waiting to meet my advisor today morning. Advisor doesn't turn up and sends me this image in an email instead :)).


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What do you do on significant days; like when getting a first job, graduation, promotion, finishing internal thesis defense ;), tenure, job change, whatever else? It is 2 pm and food and drink have already been taken care of. Obviously no work today. After the horrible 'Rang De Basanti' the day before, I do not want to watch a movie either. Maybe ( Read more... )