Vasso Salam: Architect, Foreign Wife

Corpus Architect

Abstract. In the Corpus Architect project we are developing a system for creating text corpora, which will be easy to use even for non-technical users. The system creates corpora from two data sources – users’ own text documents and web pages. Users can upload their texts in various formats or ask the system for adding domain specific web texts into their corpora in an automated way. In the lat...

Ignored Architecture, Ignored Architect

Let's face it: Having to deal with a software architect can be, well, also funny – but not necessarily constructive. Any influential person is highly visible and evokes emotional reactions. Personality clashes can lead to mutual ignorance, and team members might deliberately choose to ignore the architect at least occasionally. Sometimes the architecture itself gives good reasons to ignore it. ...

Jacob Weidenmann, Pioneer Landscape Architect

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As more and more data is created each day, researchers from different science domains are trying to make sense of it. A lot of this data, for example our connections to friends on different social networking websites, can be modeled as graphs, where the nodes are actors and the edges are relationships between them. Researchers analyze this data to find new forms of communication, to explore dif...