VEE SATAYAMAS

Paper writting season

2006-12-18T19:51:00.000+07:00

ACL 2007 deadline is on 23rd January 2007.

Ada-boosting

2006-12-17T23:14:00.000+07:00

Ada-boosting - We will boost our classifiers

(thx ajarn manow)

ies4linux

2006-12-16T19:52:00.000+07:00

ies4linux can help us to run IE on GNU/Linux.

(thx nf)

Open statistical machine translation seminar

2006-12-13T16:28:00.000+07:00

Statistical machine translation seminar

On 18th December 2006, 10:00 - 11:30

At room 204, building 15, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart university, Bangkok

By Philipp Koehn

ICT Minister of Thailand and OLPC ( 100 USD Laptop )

2006-11-22T19:09:00.000+07:00

ICT Minister of Thailand - Dr. Sittichai Pookaiyaudom, said that he will support OLPC (or 100 USD Laptop) but he is not one who will make a decision whether Thailand will buy OLPCs.

Reference: http://www.blognone.com/node/3408

wmcore building

2006-11-13T21:36:00.000+07:00

Now I can build wmcore on my desktop pc. :-D


$ ./configure --prefix=/home/vee --with-gsback=/home/vee/gnustep/core/back/
$ make

I just moved StepWiRE from the GNUmakefile and supplied correct path of gsback for configure. :-)

datrie for a large dictionary

2006-11-11T01:38:00.000+07:00

datrie is a trie implementation in C using double array by thep. Its purpose is mainly for assisting word segmentation in libthai, which 16 bit array's indexes are enough. However, I want to use datrie in my experiment where the dictionary is quite large. Therefore I try to expand the array indexes to be 32 bits. To make a patch is pretty convenient since thep has already had plan to extend it. The patch is here. Currently, I think one must be able to choose 16 or 32 bits as a parameter of configure (autoconf). Anyways, in order to do easy 16/32 bits switching, I still have some issues waited for discussion here (in Thai). By the way, datrie32 (without 16/32 switching) must be already sufficient for using in my experiment.

Xnest

2006-11-08T21:16:00.000+07:00

I want to run nested X11 so devilw suggested Xnest. I started with:


 Xnest :2
 xterm -display :2

It failed since connection from xterm was denied. Then I ask devilw again so he suggested Xnest -ac.


 Xnest -ac :2
 xterm -display :2

Then it failed since xterm cannot open font. So I asked peorth because devilw was traveling home. He suggest to try xfontsel. After I selected xfontsel, it crashed. Anyways, I've got an idea to try xset so I tried this.


 Xnest -ac :2
 xset -display :2 +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/
 xset -display :2 +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/
 xset -display :2 +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/
 xterm -display :2

And then it still failed :-P. However, I can see some text displayed by twm and xfontsel, which I can see before using xset. :-) I saw something like xnlsfont but I haven't tried yet.

thx devilwearsgucci and peorth

ตำราไพธอนภาษาไทย / A Python text book in Thai

2006-11-06T15:50:00.000+07:00

ตำราไพธอนภาษาไทยฉบับแรกออกแล้ว
See also

The first Python text book in Thai language has been released.
อ่านเพิ่ม

Thank Ajarn Chakrit Saengkaew for the book and the permission to use the photo. Thank TPA for publishing this book also.

OZ is for building Meta grammar?

2006-10-22T10:05:00.000+07:00

Most of meta grammar envirments, which I know, i.e. XDG and XMG, use OZ.

Where is Teerayut Bunmee?

2006-10-10T02:15:00.000+07:00

I don't wonder because of political situation now but Teerayut Bunmee ... Why there is no news about him?

./configure

2006-09-20T21:54:00.000+07:00

vee____ มีวิธีดูเปล่า ว่าครั้งล่าสุด สั่ง configure ไปอย่างไร?
(How can I see my last configure command?)

thep vee____, head config.log

Ruby-Libthai update

2006-09-19T13:03:00.000+07:00

The first version of Ruby-Libthai has appeared since 15th February 2003. Until today, only another one method was added, i.e., LibThai::tis?.

Now we can do something like below:


require 'libthai'
"abcd".each_byte{|c|
   p LibThai::tis?(c)
}

More infomation: http://th.lug.wikia.com/wiki/Ruby-Libthai

Abiword + non-middle level character layout

2006-09-15T15:55:00.000+07:00

MK asked me about non-middle level character layout. Hence I made this experiment and the result is shown in the screenshot below.

I think it looks okay.

Abiword + Thai text

2006-09-13T23:21:00.000+07:00

By uwog and hub help, today I can install Abiword from CVS head on my Ubuntu box. I learned that I must use autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6 instead of old one. :-)

In CVS head, Pango has been already used in Abiword. Hence it can break a line of Thai text with correct word boundaries now. :-) It is very big improvement however there are several issues left, for insance, printing (as mentioned by uwog), etc.

Thank tf for Abiword + Pango and thep for Pango + LibThai. :-)

You can grab Abiword from CVS following instruction here.

pastebin

2006-09-13T16:57:00.000+07:00

In technical IRC channel (#tlwg, for instance.), we usually want to paste our (possibly long) source codes. Pasting it into IRC directly would be annoying. Therefore pastebin is emerged and help to keep your source code. Then you can give your friend URL instead pasting whole bunch of codes.
http://pastebin.ca/

ในห้อง IRC ทางเทคนิค (เช่น #tlwg) เรามักจะต้องการแปะ source code ที่อาจจะยาวลงไปบ่อยๆ การปะมันลงไปใน IRC ตรงๆ เลยมันอาจจะน่ารำคาญ ดังนั้น paste บินจะโพล่ออกมา และช่วยคุณเก็บ source code ไว้ และแล้วคุณก็สามารถจะให้ URL เพื่อนคุณไปแทนที่จะปะ code ทั้งหมดลงไป
http://pastebin.ca/

Part-of-speech tagging in Ruby

2006-09-06T14:24:00.000+07:00

Acopost is a part-of-speech tagger written in C. Since now we can useAcopost as a C library, we write a ruby binding for Acopost called Acopost4R. It is hosted at Rubyforge. In addition, modfied version of Acopost (AcopostC) is also included Acopost4R Subversion repository. We will call it. We can write Ruby code for part-of-speech tagging as follow.


Source code:

require 'acopost'
t3 = Acopost::T3.new("/home/vee/train.ngram.utf8",
                     "/home/vee/train.lex.utf8")
t3.tagging(["ฉัน", "กิน", "ข้าว"]).each{|w|
  print "#{w[0]}/#{w[1]} "
}
print "\n"


Result:

ฉัน/pper กิน/vt ข้าว/ncn

T3::tagging accept the array of words as the argument. And it return array of pair of word and part-of-speech, like NLTK-Lite style.

Acopost4R is still in very early stage so there is no release yet. However, you can obtain it from Acopost4R's subversion repository.

Acopost เป็นโปรแกรมกำหนดชนิดของคำที่เขียนด้วยภาษาซี เนื่องจากตอนนี้เราสสมารถใช้Acopost แบบ C library เราจึงเขียน ruby binding สำหรับ Acopost ชื่อว่า Acopost4R Acopost4R อยู่ที่ Rubyforge. มากไปกว่านั้น Acopost รุ่นที่แก้ไขแล้ว (AcopostC) ก็ยังถูกรวมไว้ที่ Subversion repository ของ Acopost4R ด้วย เราจะเรียกมันว่า AcopostC เราสามาถเขียนโปรแกรมภาษารูบีให้กำหนดชนิดของคำได้ตามต่อไปนี้


โปรแกรม:

require 'acopost'
t3 = Acopost::T3.new("/home/vee/train.ngram.utf8",
                     "/home/vee/train.lex.utf8")
t3.tagging(["ฉัน", "กิน", "ข้าว"]).each{|w|
  print "#{w[0]}/#{w[1]} "
}
print "\n"


ผลการทำงาน:

ฉัน/pper กิน/vt ข้าว/ncn

T3::tagging รับ array ของคำเป็นอากิวเมนต์ และส่งผลลัพธ์กลับเป็น array ของคของคำและชนิดของคำ เหมือน NLTK-Lite.

Acopost4R ยังอยู่ในระยะเริ่มต้น ดังนั้นจะยังไม่มี release อย่างไรก็ตามคุณสามารถเอามันมาเล่นได้จาก subversion repositor ของ Acopost4R.

Using Acopost as C library

2006-08-29T21:43:00.000+07:00

Acopost is a collection of part-of-speech taggers written in C and Perl. However, AFAIK, Perl is used just for the code for training the tagger. According to the lastest version of Acopost, a tagger has be called by command line (unix shell). Since I want to call a part-of-speech tagging function from C code, Acopost must be transformed into a C library. Well, I can use system("t3 .....") but a tagger take quite long time for re-initialization. For convenient, GNU Building tools and pkg-config are used. Anyways, only the t3 tagger can be called from C.

The modified version can be download here.

Acopost เป็นชุดรวมโปรแกรมกำกับชนิดของคำที่เขียนด้วยภาษาซีและ Perl อย่างไรก็ตามเท่าที่ผมทราบ ภาษา perl ใช้เฉพาะใน code สำหรับฝึกฝนตัวกำกับชนิดของคำเท่านั้น ตามที่ดูจาก acopost รุ่นล่าสุด ตัวกำกับชนิดของคำต้องเรียกจาก command line (unix shell) เท่านั้น จากที่ผมต้องการจะเรียกตัวกำกับชนิดของคำจากภาษาซี ดังนั้น Acopost จึงสมควรจะถูกแปลงเป็น C library ถึงแม้ว่าเราจะใช้คำสั่ง system("t3 ....") ได้ แต่ว่า tagger ก็ใช้เวลานานในการเริ่มทำงานแต่ละครั้ง เพื่อความสะดวกในการแปลนี้ก็ได้ใช้ GNU Building tools และ pkg-config อย่างไรก็ตาม ตัวกำกับชนิดของคำ t3 เท่านั้นที่สามารถเรียกจากภาษาซีได้

รุ่นที่แก้ไขแล้วสามารถ โหลดได้ที่นี่.

LinkGrammar4R update

2006-08-26T17:25:00.000+07:00

I plan to release LinkGrammar4R 0.1.0, which will be corresponding to LinkGrammar 4.2.3 from Abisource.

Currently, in SVN trunk, LinkGrammar4R has test units, API for manipulating parse options, API for getting number of linkages from sentence object and also Rubism iteration for handling linkages.

Anyways, I still would like to discuss about the name of methods for getting number of linkages.

Thank Bradford Folkens for his ideas, codes, bug fixing. Actually most of patches, bug reports, are done by him :-) Also thank Ken Bloom for giving me an example of API, which is his link-grammar binding based on Ruby/DL and bug fixing.

ผมกะว่าจะปล่อย LinkGrammar4R 0.1.0 ซึ่งจะสอดคล้องกับ LinkGrammar 4.2.3 จาก Abisource

ตอนนี้ใน SVN กิ่งหลัก LinkGrammar4R มี test units มี API สำหรับจัดการตัวเลือกเกี่ยวกับการแจกโครงสร้างข้อความ มี API สำหรับดึงจำนวน linkages จาก Sentence object และก็ยังมี การเข้าถึงข้อมูลแบบ Ruby สำหรับจัดการกลุ่มของ linkage

อย่างไรก็ตาม ผมยังมีความต้องการที่จะอธิปรายเกี่ยวกับ ชื่อของ method สำหรับดึงจำนวนของ linkage

ขอบคุณ Bradford Folkens สำหรับ แนวคิด รหัสต้นฉบับ การแก้บัก จริงๆ แล้ว patch และการรายงานบักส่วนมาก ก็เป็น Bradford Folkens นั่นเองที่เป็นคนทำ แล้วก็ขอบคุณ Ken Bloom ด้วยที่ช่วยให้ตัวเชื่อม link-grammar ที่เขียนบน Ruby/DL มาเป็นตัวอย่าง และช่วยแก้ bug ด้วย.

Light at midnight

2006-08-17T21:21:00.000+07:00

Even at midnight, how can I read those text without light.
ถึงแม้จะเป็นเวลาเทื่ยงคืน ฉันจะอ่านข้อความเหล่านี้ได้อย่างไรโดยไร้แสงสว่าง

A quote from /. YRO

2006-08-15T17:02:00.000+07:00

``ถ้ารัฐบาลสามารถตรวจสอบทุกอย่างที่ประชากรแต่ละคนทำได้ ก็จะไม่มีใครทำให้รัฐบาลนั้นอยู่ในการตรวจสอบได้''
``If the government can check everything each citizen does, nobody can keep the government in check.''

และแล้ว Tor ก็ต้องโดน Block?
Then Tor must be blocked?

Source

Thai government will buy 100 USD laptop?

2006-08-01T20:57:00.000+07:00

Unlike someone predicted, AMD Geode has been used not AMD K6 or K7. Geode is not another name of K6/7. AMD just bought it from National Semiconductor on 2003. So it must consume much less power than someone thought. Wifi don't have to be used to connect the Internet. As we have seen in Nintendo DS and etc., wifi can be used for group playing game and etc, which can be useful for students. Anyways, I didn't hear any news concerning this project from the government for a long time.

ไม่เหมือนที่บางคนทำนายไว้ เครื่อง 100 USD ใช้ CPU ชื่อ Geode ไม่ใช่ K6 หรือ K7 ของ AMD Geode ไม่ใช่อีกชื่อหนึ่งของ AMD K6 หรือ K7 เพราะว่า AMD พึ่งชื้อ Geode มากจาก National Semiconductor เมื่อปี 2003 ดังนั้นมันจึงกินไฟน้อยกว่าที่บางคนคิดไว้ Wifi ไม่จำเป็นต้องเอาไว้ต่อ Internet เสมอไป อย่างที่เราเห็นจาก Nintendo DS และอื่นๆ Wifi สามารถเอาไว้ใช้เล่นเกมส์แบบกลุ่มและทำประโยชน์อื่นๆ ได้ ซึ่งสามารถเป็นประโยชน์สำหรับนักเรียนหลายๆ คน ผมชอบโครงการนี้ อย่างไรก็ตามก็ไม่เห็นมีข่าวอะไรเกี่ยวกับโครงการนี้จากรัฐบาลมานานแล้ว

Install .deb

2006-07-20T19:45:00.000+07:00

Today I try to install scim-thai-xxx.deb from thep (Actually, it is in http://linux.thai.net/apt.) Anyways, on Ubuntu 6.06, it has to be rebuild. Unluckly, I don't know how to install .deb with dependency checking. ans answer my question in #tlwg as follow:


ans-ffox-win2003 vee____: dpkg -i can install any packge without dependency check
vee____ ans-ffox-win2003: i see .....
vee____ ans-ffox-win2003: how could I perform checking?
ans-ffox-win2003 but the package will still in the "unpacked" state, not "configured" state
ans-ffox-win2003 dpkg -i, then "apt-get install"
vee____ ans-ffox-win2003: thank you 
ans-ffox-win2003 if dpkg -i without correct dependency, it will be "unpackaged" or "half-configured" state, not "installed" state
 ans-ffox-win2003 ayan
ans-ffox-win2003 just run "apt-get install" it will try to complete the dependency
 ans-ffox-win2003 ayan
vee____ ans-ffox-win2003: cool
vee____ ans-ffox-win2003: can I post the discussion log to my blog?
ans-ffox-win2003> many installation script that install .deb, does use this method.
ans-ffox-win2003> yes, can post
 ans-ffox-win2003 ayan
vee____ ans-ffox-win2003: thx
ans-ffox-win2003 many installation script that install .deb, do the following step,
ans-ffox-win2003 1. dpkg -i xxx.deb
ans-ffox-win2003 2. apt-get install

He also commented that dpkg -s can be used to check installation status.

[LinkGrammar4R] We need higer-level API?

2006-07-06T21:03:00.000+07:00

Thank Bradford Folkens for reporting the bug that sometime LinkGrammar4R just crashes when Linkage.new is called. It occurs since there is no linkage from parsing result. Thus, in Linkage.new, the index was checked before calling linkage_create. If the index is out of range, the exception will be raised.

However, I feel like LinkGrammar4R need more higher-level API that free us for checking these index. It may be an iterator?


iterateLinkage(sent, opt).each{|linkage| 
    .....
}

or 

parsedSentence.eachLinkage(opt) {|linkage|
   ......
}

A product from Nectec's codefest (Release)

2006-07-04T20:06:00.000+07:00

I played Parsit firefox extension from Group number 3. This may be practical way for machine translation user interface today. :-)

Thanks blaa for helping to install this, thanks everyone in Parsit firefox extension team for developing such a good software and thanks NECTEC for the excellent campaign.

ผมลองเล่น Parsit firefox extension จากกลุ่ม 3 ดู โปรแกรมแบบนี้อาจจะเป็นวิธีที่ดีในทางปฎบัติที่จะสร้าง user interface สำหรับโปรแกรมแปลอัตโนมัติ

ขอบคุณปลาที่สอนลงโปรแกรมนี้ ของคุณทุกคนที่ทำโปรแกรมนี้ ขอบคุณ nectec ที่ทำโครงการดีๆ ขึ้นมา

Screencast: http://vee.pompokoisme.com/screencast/parsit_ff.swf
Its homepage: http://www.softwarebank.org/projects/parsit-cf03/
Release: http://www.softwarebank.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=59&release_id=69

TIS-620 will be in xchat-gnome combo box.

2006-07-03T00:35:00.000+07:00

TIS-620 was added to xchat-gnome's combo box in the svn truck. Thanks xchat-gnome developer(s) and Thep also for making Thai known to FLOSS community.

นักพัฒนาเพิ่ม TIS-620 เข้าไปใน combo box ของ xchat-gnome แล้ว :-) ขอบคุณนักพัฒนาเอ็กซ์แชทโนม และป๋าเทพด้วยที่ให้ภาษาไทยเป็นที่รู้จักในชุมชนซอฟต์แวร์เสรี

http://svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/xchat-gnome/src/fe-gnome/irc-network.c
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346396

xchat-gnome and TIS-620 again

2006-07-02T18:57:00.000+07:00

Now I try to file it at GNOME Bugzilla

Software Engineering

2006-06-28T13:24:00.000+07:00

I may need to know more about these 2 words Spiral model and
Agile.

BTW, even spiral model or agile or other might not be useful for the team have common platform or common standard coding or common programming language. -_-!

Constituents in Link-grammar API

2006-06-24T00:18:00.000+07:00

In Link-grammar 4.4.2, the functions in API for handling constituents are omitted. However, Dom has added them these functions to Link-grammar in CVS trunk already. :-) So LinkGrammar4R in its SVN trunk was changed to be compatible with Link-grammar in CVS trunk too.

I'm just waiting for new release of Link-Grammar with the functions for handing constituent in API. Then I will test and release new LinkGrammar4R too.

LinkGrammar4R 0.0.2 release

2006-06-14T18:44:00.000+07:00

LinkGrammar4R 0.0.2 is tended to conform Link-grammar 4.4.2, which its API has been changed significantly from 4.1.3, for instance, the API were grouped into a single file, the dictionary can be created by only choosing the language rather than selecting each data files. However, some functions for handling phrase structure trees are not included in public API. Thus, in LinkGrammar4R 0.0.2, the functions for phrase structure handling is provided as an option. Moreover, after, discussion in Abiword IRC, there is a hope to add the phrase structure handling functions to public API of Abiword's branch of Link-grammar. :-)

Thank Ken Bloom for informing LinkGrammar4R building on AMD64 and new header file. Thank Uwog and Dom of the Abiword team for suggestion about Link-grammar API.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/linkgrammar4r/

[Thai translation]
LinkGrammar4R 0.0.2 เขียนออกมาเพื่อให้สอดคล้องกับ Link-grammar 4.4.2 ที่ API เปลี่ยนไปอย่างเห็นได้ชัดจากรุ่น 4.1.3 เช่น API จัดให้อยู่ใน header file ไฟล์เดียว dictionary สร้างได้โดยการระบุภาษาแทนที่จะต้องระบุถึงไฟล์ข้อมูลแต่ละไฟล์ อย่างไรก็ตามมีฟังก์ชันสำหรับจัดการต้นไม้โครงสร้างวลีที่ไม่รวมอยู่ใน public API ด้วย ทำให้ฟังก์ชันสำหรับจัดการต้นไม้โครงสร้างวลีใน LinkGrammar4R 0.0.2 เป็นตัวเลือก มากไปกว่านั้นหลังจากการสนทนาใน IRC ของ Abiword ก็มีความหวังว่าฟังก์ชันในการจัดการโครงสร้างวลีจะถูกรวมเข้าใน public API ของ Link-grammar ในกิ่งของ Abiword ด้วย

ขอบคุณ Ken Bloom ที่แจ้งให้ทราบถึงปัญหาในการ build LinkGrammar4R บน AMD64 และ header file ใหม่ ขอบคุณ uwog และ dom แห่งทีม Abiword ที่ให้คำแนะนำเกี่ยวกับ Link-grammar API

http://rubyforge.org/projects/linkgrammar4r/

[I am learning more langauges.]

A free/open source software with a nice manual

2006-05-27T20:19:00.000+07:00

Even for free/open source software, I prefer reading a nice manual. However without a nice manual, I prefer free/open source software. :-P

NLP summer school in Bangkok

2006-05-26T18:17:00.000+07:00

There will be a summer school about NLP named "LAICS-NLP Summer School" in Bangkok on 16th-22nd October. As far as I know, it will happen in Kasetsart University and mostly organized by Ajarn Asanee (my advisor).

For me, the topics about syntax and lexical structure are quite intersting. :-)

For more details http://naist.cpe.ku.ac.th/LAICS-NLP/courses_workshop.html

Release sources != Open source software

2006-05-17T17:56:00.000+07:00

Distributing software without chrage != Free software
Release sources != Open source software

To open source .... but forking is not allow sounds terrible and .... won't be open source software following OSI definition.

Slowly turnaround

2006-05-15T15:35:00.000+07:00

Slowly turnaround ~ Riding an elephant to catch a grasshopper (translated from Thai idiom) ?

Better web application video :-)

2006-05-12T19:18:00.000+07:00

http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov

It looks nice. However Turbogears at that time is 0.8, which is quite different from 0.9 that we use today. 0.9 is included authentication, i18 and scaffold too.

Free serious MT is coming to town.

2006-04-12T19:38:00.000+07:00

Open Logos

In fact, it has come for a while .... since new the lastest release version is 1.0.2.

Dict OS X for French-English dictionary

2006-04-07T15:56:00.000+07:00

dictosx_fra_eng
Originally uploaded by veetai.

At the office, I can use Systrans online by http://world.altavista.com for translating French text to English. In fact, I want to read in Thai. However, in English is okay. :-P A free online French-English dictionary can be also accessed at http://www.dict.org/.

At the dorm, there is even no telephone line (for me to connect the internet). Thus a FreeDict package from Debian, which was taken from http://www.freedict.org/ by Debian packager, was obtained by me too. Then I give it you in a zip file for DictOSX. To use this dictionary, DictOSX has to be installed first. Then download this zip. Normally it will be extracted automatically. (Otherwise it can be extracted manually by Stuffit Expander or whatever you like). Finally FreeDict-FRA-ENG.dictosx must be put in /Library/Application Support/Dict OS X. Next time when you start the DictOSX, French-English dictionary should be ready to use. :-)

TextBreak is moved back to GNA.org

2006-03-27T17:30:00.000+07:00

This morning I took 2 hours for uploading TextBreak family to web server by FTP but it was failed. I don't know exactly why it was failed. The network here was shaped? Cheap web hosting? Anyways, I just moved codes back to Subversion at https://gna.org/projects/textbreak/ and release files there too. This release is not usable yet. Anyways it might be useful for who want to know how it is like.

TextBreak development strategy

2006-03-26T21:16:00.000+07:00

TextBreak development strategy
Originally uploaded by veetai.

This diagram show the development strategy of TextBreak. There 3 sub-projects that are running simultaneously. Since implementation TextBreak in C is pretty difficult. Thus the prototype in Python was built before building fully implementation in C. However, there is some modules have been written in C already. For instance, Dict, which is dictionary in Trie structure. In order to integrate them, Python binding is built. At the last phase, the prototype will be ported into C. :-)

QT4 + Thai word breaking

2006-03-24T19:07:00.000+07:00

OB proposes to hack QT4 in order to plug word breaking module,
for instance, LibThai. If there is one who is doing that or interested
in that, please reply him.

http://linux.thai.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=28034

Machine translation: Bookmark

2006-03-24T16:07:00.000+07:00

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/ref/mlim/chapter4.html

Word

2006-03-03T20:14:00.000+07:00

Morpheme

Lexeme

Compound word

Lexical entry

Unit testing in C

2006-02-26T01:15:00.000+07:00

http://opensourcetesting.org/unit_c.php

Dorr's publications

2006-02-24T00:03:00.000+07:00

Dorr's publications

Coling submission deadline is coming soon T_T

2006-01-17T20:53:00.000+07:00

Important dates for Coling/ACL 2006

Coling submission deadline is coming soon. From now, I will stop developing annotation tools, posting webboard, posting weblog, watch TV .... bla bla bla ..... until the deadline.

The LinkGrammar binding for Ruby has been moved to Rubyforge.org

2006-01-01T15:46:00.000+07:00

The LinkGrammar binding for Ruby has been moved to Rubyforge.org. http://rubyforge.org/projects/linkgrammar4r/.
Formerly, it was hosted in geocities.com. In order to make it searchable easily, it has been moved. Moreover, rubyforge.org provided SVN, bug tracker, etc, which could support further development.

The client of the English parser service

2005-11-14T15:34:00.000+07:00

According to the English parsing service over POX and HTTP that was mentioned in this blog. It seems to miss an important example that is example of client wriiting. So it will be shown here.


require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

res = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse('http://127.0.0.1:8030/parse/'),
                                    {'txt'=>'I love you.'})
print res.body

We can just use standard HTTP lib of any languages. Then the parsing result in XML can be obtained, as shown below.


<result>
<constituent label="S" >
....
....
....
</constituent>
</result>

Easy, isn't it?

English parsing service over POX and HTTP

2005-11-14T01:16:00.000+07:00

The Link grammar parser from CMU is freely available and very robust. It has to be used over C API or the command line interface. In order to integrate tools from heterogeneous platforms, most of my tools communicate each others by Plain Old XML ( POX ) and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ). Hence I write POX and HTTP wrapper for the Link grammar parser by using the Link grammar parser, its Ruby binding and the WEBrick. Moreover the Link grammar parser from Abiword CVS has been adopted because it provides the script for the GNU Building tools and the pkg-config are convenient.

In order to show the way this service work, HTML script below is written.

The script above will generate HTML page, as shown in figure 1 and it send plain text to parsing service. Then parsing service will return parsing result in XML, which is illustrated in figure 2. For real usage, a web browser is replaced by a program with a xml parser and a http client framework.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Now I have a parser service, which is easy (?) to use. So I will step to look at pdf2text. :-)

Ruby/Link Grammar Binding

2005-11-12T00:36:00.001+07:00

This blog entry is out of date. Please visit http://rubyforge.org/projects/linkgrammar4r/ instead.

Since I want to use link grammar parser for some particular tasks and I'm using Ruby language. There is no existing Ruby binding for Link Grammar Parser. Hence I wrote one. It is incomplete but it may be useful for someone who want to make this binding but don't want to start from scratch.

http://www.geocities.com/veetai/ruby-linkgrammar-20051111.tar.gz

The example of using link grammar parsing in Ruby is as follow:


require 'linkgrammar'

dict = LinkGrammar::Dictionary.new("4.0.dict", nil, nil, nil)
sent = LinkGrammar::Sentence.new('I love you.', dict)
opts = LinkGrammar::ParseOptions.new
sent.parse(opts)
linkage = LinkGrammar::Linkage.new(0, sent, opts)
words = linkage.get_words
words.each{|w|
print "w = #{w}\n"
}
cnode = linkage.constituent_tree
print "Root node label = #{cnode.label}\n"

The result:


w = LEFT-WALL
w = I.p
w = love.v
w = you.[?].n
w = RIGHT-WALL
Root node label = S
Freeing dictionary 4.0.dict

P.S. I probably post the update later if I found that this binding is not enough for my tasks :-)

Phrase Structure Tree Drawer for paper writting

2005-08-21T21:46:00.000+07:00

Tree is defined in XML.

And it was exported to PDF :-)

source code

Converting NSTextStorage to Ruby string for non ASCII

2005-08-21T00:22:00.000+07:00

text_storage.string.UTF8String.to_s

Text Break: Coding

2005-08-09T23:09:00.000+07:00

Aim of Text Break project is to make a universal compact and extensible word segmentation engine for any language.
The main idea is the assumption that every word segmentation software is based on something similar appoach that is
searching shortest path on directed acyclic graph which each node represents a character. However the variant is how
weighted edges are added into graph. In term of extensible, Text Break should be adapted to new langauges and also
new techniques for supported languages. Finally, I start coding it now :-) http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/textbreak/trunk/textbreak/

Free Jabber-RPC

2005-07-31T22:32:00.000+07:00

Since Jabber-RPC implementation in Java cannot be found
( If it exists, please inform me. ) so I write one and named it
Free Jabber-RPC. It is still in very early experimental state
and only client side is implemented. I steal some codes from Apache XML-RPC Framework and
use Smack heavily but Smack and Apache XML-RPC have different license so I try to keep
every thing that were imported from Apache XML-RPC in Apache Lisence and
lisence new source code as GPL. ( Should I do this? )
I just tested it by sending simple method request to JabberXMLRPC in Python.

Obtain Free Jabber-RPC 20050731

Shopping Music Online: Mixiclub.com

2005-07-07T16:13:00.000+07:00

Mixiclub.com is a website of RS Promotion which is a port for selling ( Thai ) songs online. I conceptually appreciate this service since I can choose to buy a song not an album. Moreover it is quite reasonable price ( 15 Bath for 1 song ). However musics are distributed in WMA format which I need window media player to
listen to music. It is absolutely inconvenient. Is they any GNU/Linux user friendly service availible?

NO, I'm not SCV.

2005-06-06T15:43:00.000+07:00

Starcraft can teach people about management. A manager should maximize resource utilization. Anyways, I 'm not marine, not even SCV. Sometimes I think people should play football manager game instead because football manager game is not as real as Starcraft is. :-P

P.S. Just for practising my extremely *POOR* english. Could you do me a favor? Please suggest me about English. Please tell me where my writting is poor. I want to improve myself.

The Attempt to Port RubyCocoa to GNUstep

2005-04-18T15:11:00.000+07:00

RubyCocoa seems to be more functional than RIGS. IMHO, to unify Ruby -> GNUstep/Cocoa interface would allow us to write portable GNUstep/Cocoa based program. After trying to build RubyCocoa on GNUstep, I found that there is not NSNetService
and NSDistantObjectRequest on GNUstep. I don't know why they does not exist. By this result, I think I should learn more about about NSProxy. ;-)

Why do we should use Theora instead of MPEG4 ?

2005-04-08T11:38:00.000+07:00

It was painful when we can't read or procude some document or audio or video in format that some people want. MS .doc is one of the example we don't exactly how to encode and decode .doc . Thus, someone try to use open standard for file format. Unfortunately, some open standards suck coz we can't use it freely. We may have to buy its document. However to buy document is not the most terrible. Some open standards are patent which means that we can't not use it freely without permission of its owner. By patent, free/open source software developers in some part of the world can't develope their encoders/decoders and distribute them freely.

MPEG4 is patent technology, isn't it? Is there any of its owners allow us to use MPEG4? IMHO, we should recognise other format that we are allowed to use - Theora ,for instance.

Truetype fonts snapshot from thaifonts-scalable

2004-08-13T21:39:00.000+07:00

Truetype fonts snapshot from thaifonts-scalable can be downloaded here. To install fonts is quite simple now. We can just copy *.tff to $HOME/.fonts directory. My friend wanna to use Loma and other fonts. I don't know where to grab them then I install fontforge and grab thaifonts-scalable from cvs ( head ), run configure, make and pack this to my friends. Hence, notthing officially and I don't know what gotta happen to your desktop after install this :-P

Backgrounds

2004-08-05T01:21:00.000+07:00

Thanks Anew.

Influenced by MBasic

2004-07-27T21:11:00.000+07:00

I wondered how MBasic interpret strings ( Basic code. ). I wanna see how it work so I use GNU/Linux, which is free software. Although there is no MBasic in Linux Distro but there are plenty of another interpreter to hack. My main job is also about string manupulating. Today I 'm writing program to generate parse tree from Earley parsing result. I go on manipulate string, not because that I can do well but just because I wanna do. :-P

dict-lexitron package for debian

2004-07-13T15:12:00.000+07:00

dict-lexitron debian package can be download here.
I suppose to make on all architects but I don't know how to do :-P
I changed debian/control, then dpkg-buildpackage do not work.

dictd-lexitron on Debian

2004-07-12T18:35:00.000+07:00

I try to fix shit that I left in dictd-lexitron. I forgot to add some file in Makefile.am and configure.in.
So I make this patch. I try to make deb for dictd-lexitron but it is not finish yet. Anyway, there are some progress. To install *.dict.gz and *.index to /usr/share/dictd only is not enough to Debian. After I use command /etc/init.d/dictd restart, ``dictd'' was killed because of LOCALE problem. To use command ``/usr/sbin/dictd --locale=th_TH.UTF-8'' instead could make it work but I still don't if I use modify /etc/init.d/dictd or not??? Where do I suppose to modify? ( Please leave me some comments )

Chinese Language Enabled Live CD

2004-07-06T19:21:00.000+07:00

I cannot download any Chinese Language Enabled Live CD. To install chinese fonts is pretty obvious but to config XCIN doesn't seem to be easy for me. Hence, I think trying something that is already work is better :-P Therefore, I ask some suggestion for Singpore LUG , which, I 'm waiting for ...

Debian Package

2004-07-02T18:48:00.000+07:00

I have to install Statistics-MaxEntropy, which is Perl module and we need it for many statistical NLP tasks, to Debian boxes. I will need to install it again. Thus, I will make my first debian package. However, please tell me if it is already exist. I plan to follow this document and then make it fast and dirty :-P Upstream contribution is not main purpose. Anyway, I will clean it if I have free time.

Thai Dictionary on Dict Protocol

2004-06-20T04:35:00.000+07:00

Poonlap made a program to convert data from Lexitron to dictd format. Thus, nowaday we have available English-Thai dictionary on dict protocol. That means we can use existing dict client such as gdict. And we can use Lexitron dictionary offline without using Java runtime environment. I try to get involve by adding autotools support patch which I don't know if it is good enough to use. :-P

Python and GTK+ as Cross Platform Environment

2004-06-17T22:47:00.000+07:00

I used to have problem on using Python and GTK+ with Thai language.

But today it seems to be okay.

I installed these following software:

GTK+ Runtime Environment

Gaim - I don't know how to install Wimp so I use Gaim installer :-P

PyGTK

MinGW PyGTK can't find some DLLs. I don't know to set PATH on Windows so I use MinGW and Bash.

I 'm going to install gtksourceview from source package. It is probably hard task. I will follow the script of Dropline GTK+ Win32 and PyGTK Win32 ( In Do it yourself section ) . I probably need GCC from MinGW.

WISICT 05

2004-06-16T23:07:00.000+07:00

I have to seek for conference for master degree. Winter International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies seems to be interesting.

Unified /home

2004-06-16T23:00:00.000+07:00

New server has come to my lab. I don't wanna maintain different /home in different machine so I try to share it by NFS. Installing NFS is not as hard as I think but I still have problem. I wanna unified group id, user id and password too. I 'm not if OpenLDAP can solve all of this problem.

Knoppix Terminal Server on Debian Sarge

2004-06-14T22:20:00.000+07:00

I asked if I can install Knoppix Terminal Server on Debian Sarge so nUm recommended me this page.

Abiword 2.1.3 on Windows 's Thai text breaking problem.

2004-06-14T18:39:00.000+07:00

Abiword 2.1.3 on Windows 's Thai text breaking problem. This is screenshot.

Abiword Bugs

2004-06-13T18:05:00.000+07:00

I reported 2 new bugs to Abiword's BugzillaI reported 2 new bugs to Abiword's BugzillaI reported 2 new bugs to Abiword's Bugzilla. They are bug no. 6986 and 6987. They are about Thai word breaking and Thai character deleting repectively.

Euro 2004

2004-06-13T11:29:00.000+07:00

Euro 2004 (Football) Schedule is here in Thai language.Euro 2004 (Football) Schedule is here in Thai language.Euro 2004 (Football) Schedule is here in Thai language.

Making slide on TLE and Sarge.

2004-06-09T22:37:00.000+07:00

I use Latex, Thai Latex Extension and Prosper.

Slide from Sarge.

Slide from TLE.

Danish Dependency Treebank

2004-06-08T20:23:00.000+07:00

I just found Danish Dependency Treebank. :-P There are so much to see following its links.

GNUstep and Themes

2004-06-08T09:54:00.000+07:00

I wanna try this theme. Fai said that it is bundle themes. I'm wait for its releasing.

BibTeX and Thai Language

2004-06-06T22:59:00.000+07:00

Noo and I modified .bst file for our senior project report in Thai langauge. I usually forget fields in bib files. The manual is here.

Gantt Chart in Latex

2004-06-06T22:13:00.000+07:00

I was told to put gantt chart in my report. MrProject is easy to use and it is wysiwyg stuff but it seem to be inconvenient to export gantt chart to Latex. Nowaday, I use this pacakge to make gantt chart. It has done by PSTricks. ( thx Joy )

Technical Writting

2004-06-06T17:08:00.000+07:00

It is very very hard task for me but I have to do it otherwise I won't be able to go on my occupation in research area. I try to write only important things and put detail in footnote. And I try to design my document first. If you have any suggestion, please tell me.

Progeny again.

2004-06-04T23:59:00.000+07:00

I installed Progeny Debian to my PC again. It doesn't work it my Genius wheel mouse. I don't know why I can't move mouse's cursor horizontally since the configuration of X11 seem to be as same as in TLE 5.5. ( but they are in differrent file XF86Config-4 and XF86Config. )

Note: Thep told me that I use install package perhap named ``menu'' then I can use Debian menu.

Grammar Compacting

2004-06-04T03:48:00.000+07:00

Grammar compacting program for experiment is available now.

Config timezone in GNUstep

2004-06-03T04:17:00.000+07:00

In directory System/Library/Libraries/Resources/gnustep-base/NSTimeZones/zones, cp gmt+7 ICT. ( In case of Thailand )

GNUstep and Art-Backend Installation

2004-06-03T03:37:00.000+07:00

To use Art-Backend, we need to install specific fonts for Art that we can get here.

Software Piracy and Moral Precept

2004-06-03T01:48:00.000+07:00

I discuss this topic in forum of a Buddhism group.

Earley Parser Learning

2004-06-02T23:46:00.000+07:00

I try to learn how Earley parser work. Thus, I write this simple implementation for learning purpose. If you find the faults because I misunderstand Earley parser, please tell me. :-P

2004-06-02T11:14:00.000+07:00

In Debian, We can disable network interface startup at boot time by remove ``auto'' in front of the name of interface, ``auto eth'', for instance. ( Thanks Chanop )

2004-06-01T23:47:00.000+07:00

Thanks Singapore Linux User Group. I can use rxvt with xcin by this instruction.

2004-05-30T12:42:00.000+07:00

Debian menu in Progeny seems to be disabled.

2004-05-30T03:59:00.000+07:00

I can't type space when I use Garuda font from this package. I don't know how the problem came. Anyway, I try to use new version of Fontforge. It should be easiest way to try.

2004-05-30T03:55:00.000+07:00

I installed Progeny Developer Edition. Anaconda worked so smooth. I just choose package for personal computer. It looks just like TLE. The problem was that I can't connect to the Internet so I use Knoppix to grab libwvstream and wvdial. Then, I can use apt-get happily. But xfonts-thai-tff seem to have problem with Progeny because I can find no new fonts when I've installed this package. ( I don't know if it relates to Defoma. ) Anyway, I copy then to ~/.fonts and everythings become okay. I do some xkbmap config and now I can use Thai and Internet from Progeny :-D

2004-05-29T16:15:00.000+07:00

This is Mozilla ICU Patch from OpenTLE. It allows Mozilla to do correct Thai line breaking.

2004-05-29T10:37:00.000+07:00

I watched Shrek2 yesterday. It must be very nice movie for leftist. :-D

2004-05-28T11:32:00.000+07:00

I like this site about design pattern. It is quite brief.

2004-05-28T11:13:00.000+07:00

People recommend me to design my software on paper. Today I try to do it again afer many many fails.

2004-05-28T11:06:00.000+07:00

I try to download ISO image of Progeny Linux from here but I can't. I wonder where it has gone.

2004-05-27T11:38:00.000+07:00

I've already implemented ThBrkDict following Theppitak's guildline. It is here.

2004-05-26T20:25:00.000+07:00

My truely labour work is still last. :-P

I try to write Earley parser ( for learning propose ) but it is not finish. Anyway, I understand Earley parser better.

LibThai/ThBrk is still in progress. ``th_brk_dict_vee_walk'' has been built as first function. :-P th_brk_dict_vee_init will be next.

Hin (OpenTLE's developer) is doing something about Thai spelling checker and MySpell. Good news,isn't it? :-D As mention in his blog.

2004-05-25T23:14:00.000+07:00

This is the best tutorial on Earley parser, which I have ever seen

2004-05-25T12:34:00.000+07:00

Speech synthesis for blinds is interesting. We can use existing framework like Gnompernicus and make Thai backend. Thai backend may not need to be GPL?

Earley parsing may help to speed up grammar compacting.

I try to contact Ajarn Tawachai about Debian and Burapha Linux. I 'm waiting for response.

Fesival's license seems to be original BSDL like. It must be suit software to port to Palm OS.

2004-05-24T20:06:00.000+07:00

I can't find Abiword.profile as tf told me. I should ask him. ( I wanna check log and check if uniscribe is enable. )

2004-05-24T19:29:00.000+07:00

Abiword 2.1.2 precompiled package for Win32 can't use Thai language yet.

Thai character deleting is out of order and make Abiword crash. ( only when Thai font is used. )

Word breaking is not performed correctly. ( I don't know if it use uniscribe yet. )

I choose Thai language at the first time. It is no Thai dictionary so there are a lot of error report.

VEE SATAYAMAS

Paper writting season

Ada-boosting

ies4linux

Open statistical machine translation seminar

ICT Minister of Thailand and OLPC ( 100 USD Laptop )

wmcore building

datrie for a large dictionary

Xnest

ตำราไพธอนภาษาไทย / A Python text book in Thai

OZ is for building Meta grammar?

Where is Teerayut Bunmee?

./configure

Ruby-Libthai update

Abiword + non-middle level character layout

Abiword + Thai text

pastebin

Part-of-speech tagging in Ruby

Using Acopost as C library

LinkGrammar4R update

Light at midnight

A quote from /. YRO

Thai government will buy 100 USD laptop?

Install .deb

[LinkGrammar4R] We need higer-level API?

A product from Nectec's codefest (Release)

TIS-620 will be in xchat-gnome combo box.

xchat-gnome and TIS-620 again

Software Engineering

Constituents in Link-grammar API

LinkGrammar4R 0.0.2 release

A free/open source software with a nice manual

NLP summer school in Bangkok

Release sources != Open source software

Slowly turnaround

Better web application video :-)

Free serious MT is coming to town.

Dict OS X for French-English dictionary

TextBreak is *moved* back to GNA.org

TextBreak development strategy

QT4 + Thai word breaking

Machine translation: Bookmark

Word

Unit testing in C

Dorr's publications

Coling submission deadline is coming soon T_T

The LinkGrammar binding for Ruby has been moved to Rubyforge.org

The client of the English parser service

English parsing service over POX and HTTP

Ruby/Link Grammar Binding

Phrase Structure Tree Drawer for paper writting

Converting NSTextStorage to Ruby string for non ASCII

Text Break: Coding

Free Jabber-RPC

Shopping Music Online: Mixiclub.com

NO, I'm not SCV.

The Attempt to Port RubyCocoa to GNUstep

Why do we should use Theora instead of *MPEG4* ?

Truetype fonts snapshot from thaifonts-scalable

Backgrounds

Influenced by MBasic

dict-lexitron package for debian

dictd-lexitron on Debian

Chinese Language Enabled Live CD

Debian Package

Thai Dictionary on Dict Protocol

Python and GTK+ as Cross Platform Environment

WISICT 05

Unified /home

Knoppix Terminal Server on Debian Sarge

Abiword 2.1.3 on Windows 's Thai text breaking problem.

Abiword Bugs

Euro 2004

Making slide on TLE and Sarge.

Danish Dependency Treebank

GNUstep and Themes

BibTeX and Thai Language

Gantt Chart in Latex

Technical Writting

Progeny again.

TextBreak is moved back to GNA.org

Why do we should use Theora instead of MPEG4 ?