User:Wsurowiec
I've been a programmer for over 40 years. Loved it when I started and cannot stop loving it just because I'm "retired." There are so many fascinating tools and delicious problems that I, for one, cannot willingly walk away - to the disappointment, I fear, of family and friends.
Yes, of course there is much more to life. But what do you do when you find, early on, the one, true thing for you? Do you keep "kissing frogs" just because the next one might be better? Or do you settle in and develop a relationship that can last a lifetime. For better or worse I seem to have chosen the latter.
There are several things that currently interest me and hopefully others. I am citing specific tools only to indicate this "could" begin today and not that these are the most appropriate tools - I've not examined license terms for example:
- using UIMA to provide a plug-in environment for "mining" crawl content. I am sure practical considerations alone would limit the near term feasibility of doing this to only a narrowly and well defined segment of the content - but it sure is a worthy problem.
- using Jena (yes, I am dreaming) to house semantically distilled content from the above.
- using : jSVM because Support Vector Machines interest me (not that I understand them) - and the potential horsepower will probably be needed in the "semantic" stuff.
- using Esper on several facets related to search:
- the obvious monitoring of queries over time
- monitoring the crawl - performance, "permissions", etc.
- monitoring the user input side of our ratings system
- monitoring semantic (I am dreaming) topics being discovered downstream of the crawl and through query requests
There is more - but even a subset of the above reflects some serious work.
I would love to see and participate in an "academic" side developing around this project feeding useful goodies into the pipeline.