Category: Unit

  • A guest lecture in Data Warehousing

    Last Friday, 16 of March 2007, Patrik Astervall and Johan Dahlin from Pointer Ltd visited DSV and gave a guest lecture for the students joining the Data Warehousing unit. Patrik and Johan introduced briefly Pointer Ltd, presented a case from the industry, shared some of their experiences as developers of data warehousing solutions, and gave…

  • Last Friday, 16 of March 2007, Patrik Astervall and Johan Dahlin from Pointer Ltd visited DSV and gave a guest lecture for the students joining the Data Warehousing unit. Patrik and Johan introduced briefly Pointer Ltd, presented a case from the industry, shared some of their experiences as developers of data warehousing solutions, and gave…

  • Automated question and e-mail answering

    People sitting in front of their computers expect quick solutions. People browsing a website expect quick answers to their questions. Today there exist two main application areas for automated question answering – open domain corpus-based question answering systems which aim primarily at fact extraction from the web, and small scale closed domain question answering systems…

  • Automated question and e-mail answering

    People sitting in front of their computers expect quick solutions. People browsing a website expect quick answers to their questions. Today there exist two main application areas for automated question answering – open domain corpus-based question answering systems which aim primarily at fact extraction from the web, and small scale closed domain question answering systems…

  • Structuring unstructured data using automatic text processing

    igital information is becoming more and more abundant in all areas, for example news are today available in many different languages from various sources. Other examples are business systems that today are consolidated and integrated and, therefore, produce a lot of unstructured data, for example medical patient records. How can we process this information so…

  • What is Enterprise Modelling?

    An enterprise model is a “computational representation of the structure, activities, processes, information, resources, people, behavior, goals, and constraints of a business, government, or other enterprises”, as defined in Wikipedia. Enterprise models have been used for a long time in information systems design, and it is possible to identify three main ways of utilising enterprise models: Models as sketches.…

  • An update on the Collaborative writing project (or rather the info about it)

    I’d like to complement the incredibly dull recent post about the Collaborative writing. That post was written in the old, uninteresting style that you generally want to avoid in a blog. It is the style of someone _telling_ you about things. Could have been written on any conventional corporate web site. The following text is…

  • A project on Collaborative writing

    First of all, thank you for the invitation to join this space. There is a project as Syslab that is coming to a conclusion shortly, called Collaborative writing. It’s all about using new (or new-ish) technology to collaborate when writing for instance a research report. Examples of these technologies are Google.docs (aka Writely) and different…