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Wordnet Vocabulary & Definitions

This was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet on September 7th, 2010 because, well, I just needed it quickly accessible. Nouns hypernyms Y is a hypernym of X if every X is a (kind of) Y canine is a hypernym of dog, because every dog is a member of the larger category of canines hyponyms Y is a [...]
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Serializing Stanford Parser Objects.

Recently, I found the need to serialize Stanford Parser objects to a file. Though I was familiar with the concept of serialization, I had never done such a thing in Java before. The following is an example on how to do just that: serializing Stanford Parser Tree objects to a file. The example accomplishes the [...]
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Hadoop example for Exim logs with Python.

The following is an example of parsing an exim_mainlog using Hadoop streaming. I’ve implemented both the mapper and the reducer in Python. The mapper and reducer don’t handle all of Exim’s log formats yet but this can be easily extended in the mapper and reducer if you actually end up using the output (this is [...]
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