The black hole…
...my black hole...
In the last months I’ve been giving some classes on Natural Language Processing (NLP). I decided to share some of my experiments here. I will not give you rocket science. I will cover basics. And I will focus them with my own vision. You are warned! One of the typical tasks in NLP is to […]
I am not a researcher in gamification or educational games, but I teach, I teach game development, and I play games. With this background, I’ve been thinking on how current gamification is directed, and especially, how educational games are being created. Gamification First, gamification is considered the solution for engagement, and thus, it is being […]
In the last few days, I needed to configure two Docker containers, one running a static React website (served by nginx) and another one running a Python Flask-based API, both behind Basic Auth (in the future, OAuth, but one step at a time) provided by Traefik. I discovered a couple of different things, both from […]
I was playing with GloVe, and noticed it does not ship with any code to run its pipeline. I suspect there are hundred of modules to do that from withing Python, but I decided to do a quick clean script to run that from the command line, and at the same time ready to tune […]
While some of this information is accurate, I have one main issue with this configuration: with Traefik running in non swarm mode, it is unable to detect containers running on other swarm nodes. 2021 March 14 In the last weeks I’ve been deploying a set of new services in three servers. As I want to […]
Today I took a long time, together with folks from the eXist-DB Community (thanks Luca Guariento and line0 for the brainstorming), to figure out why a function was receiving a node sequence instead of a single node. The question was why using this code was not working: And fn:lower-case was complaining for receiving a sequence […]
I am the editor of Linguamática for more a dozen years. It is a journal on Natural Language Processing, with emphasis on the languages from the Iberian Peninsula. Every time a new issue is published, I use a good amount of hours editing the authors articles. Not just fixing \(\LaTeX\) glitches, that some authors are […]
Today I stumped on how to create a XML document, storing it in a XQuery variable, that is composed from both a processing instruction and an XML body. While this might seem easy at first, creating the document as once: The truth is that this does not work. Nevertheless, there is a set of ways […]
I’ve been using eXist-DB for some time for the project of the Dicionário da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa, that is being revived from the PDF into TEI, so that a new digital version can be soon released. Recently I needed to update the server where eXist-DB was running, and decided to use a dockerized […]
I have been using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines to encode dictionaries. I used it originally in Dicionário Aberto, and more recently in a work with the Portuguese Dictionary of the Lisbon Science Academy. In the last week I started teaching a course on Digital Lexicography (do not ask what that is, it is just […]