Teacher Professional Development: Building Web Apps
I’m running a workshop today for High School teachers in the local area. The goal of the workshop is to provide an example framework for building simple web ...
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Amplifying Amplify
Amplify is a project maintained by the State Library of NSW for crowdsourcing the transcription of Oral History recordings. It is being used to generate tran...
2017
Supporting accessibility and reproducibility in language research in the Alveo virtual laboratory
Our paper discussing Alveo in the context of reproducibility in language sciences is now available in Computer Speech & Language: DOI:10.1016/j.csl.2017....
2016
Docker and MAUS
Today’s problem was to write a wrapper for the MAUS automatic segmentation system in preparation for including it as a Galaxy tool. MAUS comes from Florian...
A Galaxy Workflow for Acoustic Phonetic Analysis
I’ve been working for a while now on adapting the Galaxy Workflow engine for use in speech analysis, specifically for acoustic phonetic analysis of vowel sou...
Mobile Apps for Aboriginal Languages
My introduction to Darwin was on a borrowed bike used to discover the streets around CDU and eventually making my way to the city and Midil Beach markets for...
2015
Galaxy Tool Generating Dataset Collections
As part of the Alveo project we’ve been using the Galaxy Workflow Engine to provide a web-based user-friendly interface to some language processing tools. Ga...
2011
Updating the ICE Annotation System: Tagging, Parsing and Validation
Authors: Deanna Wong, Steve Cassidy and Pam Peters
Notes on Conversion of GrAF to RDF
The Graph Annotation Format (GrAF) is the XML data exchange format developed for the model of linguistic annotation described in the ISO Linguistic Annotatio...
DADA Project Update
The DADA project is developing software for managing language resources and exposing them on the web. Language resources are digital collections of language ...
2010
An RDF Realisation of LAF in the DADA Annotation Server
The Linguistic Annotation Framework defines a generalised graph based model for annotation data intended as an interchange format for transfer of annotations...
Ingesting the Auslan Corpus into the DADA Annotation Store
Steve Cassidy and Trevor Johnston.
2009
Arduino & Physical Computing
I gave a talk last week introducing the Arduino platform to some MQ students and staff. It seemed to go well and there is a bit of interest in carrying on wi...
Using Robots to Teach Programming
This is a project idea for an Honours student or similar. Please contact me if you’d like to follow this up.
2008
A RESTful interface to Annotations on the Web
Annotation data is stored and manipulated in various formats and there have been a number of efforts to build generalised models of annotation to support sha...
Sparql Endpoint for Python WSGI
As part of DADA (and yes, that page is a bit out of date) I wanted to provide a Sparql endpoint to allow experimentation with querying the raw RDF annotation...
2007
An Evaluation of Portfolio Assessment in an Undergraduate Web Technology Unit
One of the perennial issues that is raised in student surveys is that of effective feedback. As part of our ongoing review of teaching, we identified feedbac...
Version Control for RDF Triple Stores
RDF, the core data format for the Semantic Web, is increasingly being deployed both from automated sources and via human authoring either directly or through...
Screencasts in Teaching Web Technology
I’ve been using screencasts again this year in COMP249 (Web Technology) and have settled on a fairly stable way of producing them using Camtasia on Windows. ...
PhD Scholarship in Semantic Web Technologies for Annotation
I have a PhD scholarship available for a project in applying Semantic Web technologies (RDF, Sparql, Annotea) to the Linguistic Annotation problem. Here’s an...
Welcome COMP249
This is just to welcome any COMP249 (Web Technology) students who might visit following my link from the lecture notes. You’re all welcome to look around at ...
The Machine is Us/ing Us
Here’s an excellent video talking about text, hypertext, touching on the internals of HTML and XML and how Web 2.0 has changed the role of the reader. The we...
2006
SCOPE
So today I make my TV debut! A few weeks ago a film crew from Channel 10 came to shoot a segment for the CSIRO/Channel 10 kids science show SCOPE. The episod...
Transcribed Podcasts and Audio Books
John Udell is taggins some of his del.icio.us links to podcasts with transcriptavailable, transcripts have been generated manually. This could be a nice sour...
All in the Family
My brothers are way more productive than me when it comes to generating cool websites. Via various routes we’ve all ended up working on the web, Patrick on w...
Speaker Tracking In Meetings
This is a potential project idea for an Honours or Masters student. It might also form the core of a PhD project.
Annotation - Spoken Word Services
Annotation - Spoken Word Services is another project that is providing web based annotation of audio recordings, this time in a learning environment.
2005
BBC Annotatable Audio
Tom Coates describes a currently internal BBC intitative to have everyone annotate audio content flikr style. This is a very cool application and is like a r...
What’s he building in there?
What's he building in there? What the hell is he building In there? He has subscriptions to those Magazines... He never waves when he goes by He's hiding som...
The Real Macintosh Agenda…
Did you know…
Accept all happiness from me
Listening to Bjork’s Medulla, one track turns out to be a poem by e. e. cummings:
2004
Tcl Matrix Type
I’ve just implemented a matrix object type for Tcl, the sources are available here (matrix0.1-src.zip). The package implements a new object type for Tcl whic...
Gnowsis and RDF Desktop Systems
Gnowsis is a Semantic Web desktop System which means it aggregates various bits of personal data into an RDF store and provides a browser for the store. It i...
Augmenting Conversations Using Dual Purpose Speech
Augmenting Conversations Using Dual Purpose Speech Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner Cornelis M. Snoeck, Benjamin A. Wong, Daniel Ashbrook College...
Semantic Web Talk
I gave a talk last night at the MQ Technology Trends seminar series on the semantic web, my slides are here for those who wanted them.
Bloglines Thinks I’m Italian
So I’ve just started using Bloglines as a blog aggregator and it’s working well thanks to the Firefox plugin that makes subscription and seeing updates easy....
Putting Page Numbers in PDF
One of the annoying things that needs doing when organising a conference is to produce the proceedings. These days that means generating a CDROM filled with ...
SpeechBot
SpeechBot is a is a search engine for audio & video content that is hosted and played from other websites. Recordings are indexed via speech recognition ...
Another Giggle User
So now there are two giggle users (to my knowledge) since I’ve encouraged James to keep a blog of how his research project on Topic segmentation in meetings ...
2003
More RDF Query/Path Stuff
The RDF query/manipulation proposals are coming out of the woodwork on www-rdf-rules:
Political Persuasion
Here’s an interesting test to while away a few minutes. According to the The Political Compass I’m a Leftist Libertarian, just like Ghandi, Mandela and the D...
RDF Path Languages
The world is moving quickly towards defining a path language for RDF and maybe for other more general directed graphs. Here’s a few references:
The problem with being popular…
While it’s nice being the number two ‘Steve Cassidy’ on Google (above the porn star but below the voiceover artist!) being well indexed can have it’s down si...
XTMPath — XPath for Topic Maps
Robert Barta at Bond Uni has a paper on XTMPath, Manipulating Topic Map Data Structures which I should look at a little further. I enjoyed talking with Rober...
Atom REST API
Mark Pilgrim describes his implementation of a REST API for Atom, the RSS successor being developed by various folk. This appeals to my URL designer sensibi...
Extreme Markup 2003: Day 4
Nordstom
Extreme Markup 2003: Day 3
Paolo Ciancarini
Extreme Markup 2003: Day 2
Thomas Passin
Extreme Markup 2003: Day 1
Day 1 of the main conference saw an interesting range of papers from hard core modal logic applied to document markup to tips for making XSLT writing easier.
Extreme Markup 2003: Tutorial
Having arrived in Montreal after an Airport Ordeal in Detroit and slept very well at the Bed and Breakfast I turned up at the Hilton a little late for Jonath...
IPAQ Video Conferencing
We’re setting up a teleconferencing facility in order to collect data and experiment within our meeting room project. One of the problems is that we want to ...
W3C RDF Calendar Work
A Working group in W3C is busy worrying about how to store and manage calendar data in RDF including converting the de-facto standard iCalendar format into R...
PDA Audio Recording
Since I bought my Dell Axim I’ve been looking for audio recording and playback products, since the supplied Windows Media software is pretty basic. Because o...
NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluations
Looking at the 2003 NIST SR evaluations, while we’re too late to enter this year there is some useful data available, for example the Automatically Generated...
OSCOM
An article on Advogato describes the efforts of OSCOM to unify Open Source content management systems. Mentions Twingle -
Tim Bray on Good Web Citizenship
Tim Bray talks eloquently about what Apple could do to make their IMS service a good web citizen. Including:
Giggle
So this is Giggle, my weblog system which I’ve ripped off almost completely from Blosxom which is written in Perl. Why? Well, because I wanted to fiddle with...
JXPath
JXPath - JXPath is a java api for traversing object graphs using an XPath like syntax. The collapse the notion of axis down to only ‘child’ which really beco...
2002
RDF model vs. Syntax
Don Box’s Spoutlet: My love affair with RDF began in 1999 when I had to prepare a a tutorial on XML metadata formats for XTech. My RDF love affair was with t...
Children’s Books
The International Children’s Digital Library Has 200 children’s books scanned for public access. I can’t see it because of the Java requirement though 🙁
REST
XML-RPC case study
Zero Install
Don Park’s Blog say’s the net needs zero install extensible client platforms which .Net and java webstart aren’t. perhaps CANTCL can be something like that, ...
PIMs
Open Source Applications Foundation - Vista prototype is another outlook killer, perhaps interesting this time as it’s based on an RDF database underneath an...
Overlapping trees in XML
xmlhack: One tree isn’t enough talks about a couple of proposals for encoding overlapping trees.
Universities obsolete?
In a thread on [Slashdot More on MIT OpenCourseWare](http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/22/1634209&mode=flat&tid=146) the ...
Moving to ICS
So, I’ve finally forwarded my Home Page from SHLRC to ICS, which I guess means that after 9 months here I’ve finally arrived, or rather it means that I’ve no...
Tcler’s Dinner
Had a great dinner chat with Jean-Claude Wippler and Dan Steffan. JC is the author of MetaKit, Starkit and many other interesting things and was visiting Sy...
e4graph
Discovered e4Graph which is a generalised storage system for directed graphs in C++ using MetaKit as the backend and providing C++ and scripting interfaces.
XML and Java
This book swings into my conciousness, first I find it while browsing for a new text for our XML course, then slashdot reviews it. They’re not entirely posit...
Jo Jo Laid an egg
Our Silkie chicken Jo Jo laid her first egg today, joining Betty (an Australorp) who started last week. These chooks have been around for 7 months now withou...
Dasher, text input methods
Dasher is a new input method which uses an ngram language model to predict the next letter you want to enter but lets you select it by ‘flying’ through regio...
The days run away…
Here’s my first blog entry. The blog name is from a Charles Bukowski poem, I don’t so much identify with the content (as usual for him it’s about being drunk...
Arse licker…
I’ll keep calling PM an arse-licker, vows Latham - smh.com.au…is why I like Australia.