Category: General
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Raspotify – Turn your pi into a Spotify server
As some of you know I really like to use a raspberry pi as music server. Therefore I want to introduce a nice tool: Raspotify. This little program turns your raspberry pi into a Spotify server as you might also get it when listening on your computer or on other systems like Sonos. The really…
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Digital Humanities at Hochschule Darmstadt
In summer semester me and Professor Rittberger will be giving a class about digital humanities at Hochschule Darmstadt in the major information science. Here is our syllabus, I will try to upload slides as well (but in German). We want to give a broad overview about what Digital Humanities mean. There are also other classes…
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Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) Fall 2017
Last week there was the SMWCon, the european conference on Semantic MediaWiki. It was held in Rotterdam. Our venue was directly in the Zoo in the middle of the aquarium. So we could watch sharks and turtles during the talks!! But there were also very interesting talks. The information to most of the talks you…
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How to make your own Raspberry Pi Musicbox
This is not about NLP, but I think it is worth sharing, so here we go 😉 I really like the project PiMusicbox, the raspberry pi is just the perfect device to host a music server, especially the model B1, which is also a little bit slow when it comes to video playback. But there…
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Named Entity Recognition
Named Entities are nouns that – simply speaking – refer to something in the real world. An example would be the noun Los Angeles, which refers to a city in the US, unlike the noun apple, which describes a fruit. For tasks in information retrieval it is very useful to know whether a noun refers…