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[infomap-nlp-announce] Release of infomap-nlp version 0.8.6

[Scott C. <ced...@gm...>]

From Dominic:


Dear Infomap Users,

We are pleased to announce the long-awaited (even if not much-awaited!)
version 0.8.6 of the Infomap NLP software.

The main changes from version 0.8.5 are greater flexibility to handle
different character sets (thanks to Viktor Tron), and a few bug fixes
and enhancements that should improve overall performance and stability.

In more detail, the changes are as follows:

- To extend the coverage of different character sets, infomap-build now
reads a "valid chars" file, which contains all the characters to be
treated as alphabetic by this model. There is a default
"valid_chars.en" file for English shipped with the release.

- The vector output functionality (associate -f FILENAME) has been
fixed, and so the option to output search results to a file should work
now.

- In the svd interface, myutils.c has been changed so that the memory
allocation works for 32 and 64 bit machines.

- The default admin/install.control file has been altered so that
infomap-install works automatically for more db formats (even though
this means it gives more error warnings as well).

The version has been tested for single-file corpora on Linux, Solaris,
BSD / OSX, and Windows / Cygwin platforms. infomap-build works on all
of these, infomap-install still appeasr to have problems on Solaris.

There are several further enhancements that we would like to make, in
particular, adding the web interface and some of the other tools that
are described in Infomap papers and used in the online demos, but never
made it into the release. Also, it would be great to build in some of
the GUI developments that other list members have made.

Hopefully, getting a new more stable release out there will be a big
step in the right direction, especially since it's forced Scott and
myself to get to grips once more with autoconf, automake, and some of
the other gruesome incantations that go into releasing new versions of
software.

Finally, I'm generally much more responsive to this MAYA e-mail address
(wi...@ma...), so those of you who have my CSLI old address in
your address books may wish to update.

Much graitude to everyone who has helped find bugs, fix bugs, and keep
the Infomap software alive and circulating and useful to people. Just
from my own contacts, we now have users from as far afield as medical
informatics, the intelligence community, and cultural anthropology, as
well as a good bunch of computational linguistics stalwarts. Thanks,
folks.

Best wishes,
Dominic



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[infomap-nlp-announce] Release of infomap-nlp version 0.8.6

[Scott C. <ced...@gm...>]

From Dominic:


Dear Infomap Users,

We are pleased to announce the long-awaited (even if not much-awaited!)
version 0.8.6 of the Infomap NLP software.

The main changes from version 0.8.5 are greater flexibility to handle
different character sets (thanks to Viktor Tron), and a few bug fixes
and enhancements that should improve overall performance and stability.

In more detail, the changes are as follows:

- To extend the coverage of different character sets, infomap-build now
reads a "valid chars" file, which contains all the characters to be
treated as alphabetic by this model. There is a default
"valid_chars.en" file for English shipped with the release.

- The vector output functionality (associate -f FILENAME) has been
fixed, and so the option to output search results to a file should work
now.

- In the svd interface, myutils.c has been changed so that the memory
allocation works for 32 and 64 bit machines.

- The default admin/install.control file has been altered so that
infomap-install works automatically for more db formats (even though
this means it gives more error warnings as well).

The version has been tested for single-file corpora on Linux, Solaris,
BSD / OSX, and Windows / Cygwin platforms. infomap-build works on all
of these, infomap-install still appeasr to have problems on Solaris.

There are several further enhancements that we would like to make, in
particular, adding the web interface and some of the other tools that
are described in Infomap papers and used in the online demos, but never
made it into the release. Also, it would be great to build in some of
the GUI developments that other list members have made.

Hopefully, getting a new more stable release out there will be a big
step in the right direction, especially since it's forced Scott and
myself to get to grips once more with autoconf, automake, and some of
the other gruesome incantations that go into releasing new versions of
software.

Finally, I'm generally much more responsive to this MAYA e-mail address
(wi...@ma...), so those of you who have my CSLI old address in
your address books may wish to update.

Much graitude to everyone who has helped find bugs, fix bugs, and keep
the Infomap software alive and circulating and useful to people. Just
from my own contacts, we now have users from as far afield as medical
informatics, the intelligence community, and cultural anthropology, as
well as a good bunch of computational linguistics stalwarts. Thanks,
folks.

Best wishes,
Dominic



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September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices
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[infomap-nlp-announce] Release of infomap-nlp version 0.8.6

[Dominic W. <wi...@ma...>]

Dear Infomap Users,

We are pleased to announce the long-awaited (even if not much-awaited!) 
version 0.8.6 of the Infomap NLP software.

The main changes from version 0.8.5 are greater flexibility to handle 
different character sets (thanks to Viktor Tron), and a few bug fixes 
and enhancements that should improve overall performance and stability.

In more detail, the changes are as follows:

- To extend the coverage of different character sets, infomap-build now 
reads a "valid chars" file, which contains all the characters to be 
treated as alphabetic by this model. There is a default 
"valid_chars.en" file for English shipped with the release.

- The vector output functionality (associate -f FILENAME) has been 
fixed, and so the option to output search results to a file should work 
now.

- In the svd interface, myutils.c has been changed so that the memory 
allocation works for 32 and 64 bit machines.

- The default admin/install.control file has been altered so that 
infomap-install works automatically for more db formats (even though 
this means it gives more error warnings as well).

The version has been tested for single-file corpora on Linux, Solaris, 
BSD / OSX, and Windows / Cygwin platforms. infomap-build works on all 
of these, infomap-install still appeasr to have problems on Solaris.

There are several further enhancements that we would like to make, in 
particular, adding the web interface and some of the other tools that 
are described in Infomap papers and used in the online demos, but never 
made it into the release. Also, it would be great to build in some of 
the GUI developments that other list members have made.

Hopefully, getting a new more stable release out there will be a big 
step in the right direction, especially since it's forced Scott and 
myself to get to grips once more with autoconf, automake, and some of 
the other gruesome incantations that go into releasing new versions of 
software.

Finally, I'm generally much more responsive to this MAYA e-mail address 
(wi...@ma...), so those of you who have my CSLI old address in 
your address books may wish to update.

Much graitude to everyone who has helped find bugs, fix bugs, and keep 
the Infomap software alive and circulating and useful to people. Just 
from my own contacts, we now have users from as far afield as medical 
informatics, the intelligence community, and cultural anthropology, as 
well as a good bunch of computational linguistics stalwarts. Thanks, 
folks.

Best wishes,
Dominic

[infomap-nlp-announce] infomap-nlp CVS module now on SourceForge

[Scott J. C. <ced...@cs...>]

Hello Infomap NLP users and developers,

   I'm pleased to announce that we have migrated the project's CVS
   repository to SourceForge.  Those of you interested in working on
   the code should use this version (everyone else should stick to the
   official releases, and can disregard the rest of this message).

   To do anonymous checkout, use the following commands:

   $ cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/infomap-nlp
   Password: (hit return)
   $ cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/infomap-nlp co
   infomap-nlp

   (Note that these directions are also available on the SourceForge
   project summary page.)

   Those listed as developers on the SourceForge project should use
   the "-d:ext:use...@cv......" SSH-tunneled checkout instead,
   which will allow commit access.

   We welcome patches against the CVS version of the code, which
   should be sent to inf...@li...; please
   send any problems or questions related to CVS to that list as well.

                                                     Scott    

[Infomap-nlp-announce] Trying it out!

[Scott J. C. <ced...@cs...>]

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Scott Cederberg
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Infomap Project 
Computational Semantics Lab
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
Stanford University

http://infomap.stanford.edu/