ScalaNLP Roadmap and Discussion

[David Hall]

Hi everyone,

Today, Jason Baldridge (@jasonbaldridge), Dan Garrette (@dhgarrette),
and I sat down over Skype to talk. We were mostly talking about the
direction of the ScalaNLP project, taken as a whole, and what we want
it to be. Among other things, we decided that clandestine Skype
meetings should be avoided in favor of a mailing list.

Said mailing is here:
https://groups.google.com/group/scalanlp-discuss. Please join it if
you are interesting in talking about the direction of the overall
ScalaNLP project, or the organization of any of its libraries.

We wrote up a summary of what we discussed here:
https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze/wiki/ScalaNLP-Roadmap

We're not meaning this as any kind of hard and fast roadmap. We don't
want to become Apache, or anything.

Also, we're very interested in getting more contributors! We're happy
to talk about projects, things you'd like to do, whatever. If you're
reading this email and have expertise in anything that Breeze touches,
we'd like to have you! Thanks to everyone who's contributed code and
documentation so far!

Also, we made a twitter account recently: http://twitter.com/scalanlp
. It's low traffic.

[David Hall]

Thanks, I'm definitely aware of it. :-) Andrew McCallum theoretically
still subscribes to this list, and I'm on factorie's.

It is pretty cool; I haven't had much chance to play with it, but maybe soon.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:14 AM, H. Rapp <alm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
> this is not directly related, but I think it fits here in some way
>
> I recently stumpled over Factorie: http://factorie.cs.umass.edu/
> It's a Scala based probabilistic modeling library from the UMASS. I didn't
> have the time to take a closer look at, but it looks quite interessting.
>
> Just in case you didn't know it already :-)
>
> cheers
> hanez

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[Jason Baldridge]

Likewise. Andrew is the one who actually got me into Scala! FWIW, a student of mine played around with Factorie several years ago, with mixed success. Training models was slow, as I recall.

-Jason

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Jason Baldridge
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The University of Texas at Austin
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[Anthony Di Franco]

I also have been looking closely at Factorie, Oleg Kiselyov's Hansei, and Avi Pfeffer's Figaro recently, and I've decided to bring some Hansei-like things into Scala alongside Breeze and see how it goes for some planning and optimization stuff I'm working on.
If it goes well, or poorly in an interesting way, I'll send an update.
Anthony

On Apr 17, 2013 8:51 AM, "H. Rapp" <alm...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi David,
this is not directly related, but I think it fits here in some way

I recently stumpled over Factorie: http://factorie.cs.umass.edu/
It's a Scala based probabilistic modeling library from the UMASS. I didn't have the time to take a closer look at, but it looks quite interessting.

Just in case you didn't know it already :-)

cheers
hanez

Am Freitag, 12. April 2013 23:20:44 UTC+2 schrieb David Hall:

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