31 January 2017
Monks Markup Surprisingly enriching text with tags dates back to the sixth century illustrating image

Monks & Markup – Surprisingly, enriching text with tags dates back to the sixth century

Article written at the occasion of the XRCE 20th anniversary celebration. 

…but in fact, the first markup appeared hundreds of years ago.

Irish monks in the sixth century A.D. who were unfamiliar with the Latin language from the continent first …

2017
31 January 2017
Do Computers Need Grammar Books Too illustrating image

Do Computers Need Grammar Books Too?

Article written at the occasion of the XRCE 20th anniversary celebration .

His grammar contained 3,959 rules of the Sanskrit language, which describe how words are composed, how they combine into sentences, and what they mean.

This grammar probably didn’t …

2017
31 January 2017
How economics and machine learning can tackle transportation congestion illustrating image

How economics and machine learning can tackle transportation congestion.

Article written at the occasion of the XRCE 20th anniversary celebration, co-authored by Eduardo Cardenas, Christopher R. DanceStéphane Clinchant and Onno Zoeter.

However, as we all know, we do not live in an ideal world. And when we …

2017
30 January 2017
Will translation ever be fully automated illustrating image

Will translation ever be fully automated?

Article written at the occasion of the XRCE 20th anniversary celebration .

Since its beginnings in the 1940s, machine translation has been a subject of fascination for computer scientists. It has a unique position among artificial intelligence problems because …

2017
23 January 2017
Document Analysis and Layout Using Sequential Pattern Mining Techniques illustrating image

Document Analysis and Layout Using Sequential Pattern Mining Techniques

Long read

This article describes a method to mine and discover how documents are organized in terms of layout and information using Sequential Pattern Mining techniques. This step is key in enabling Information Extraction, a critical task for archival

2017
10 January 2017
What You Understand is What You Get business process modeling for everyone illustrating image

What You Understand is What You Get – business process modeling for everyone

This article is the first in a mini-series on Business Process Management (BPM), a widely adopted methodology to manage and improve processes across organizations*. This piece looks at ‘process design’, also known as ‘process modeling’ which is where you capture …

2017
10 January 2017
Tell me the whole truth and nothing but - trip planning apps must be able to calculate all travel options to build trust and more widespread adoption illustrating image

Tell me the whole truth and nothing but – trip planning apps must be able to calculate all travel options to build trust and more widespread adoption.

Blog author: Luis R. Ulloa

If you live in a city you’re probably spoilt for choice on how to get around – public transport, bike, car sharing, ride sharing or taxi. Yet, despite being faced with all these options, most …

2017

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