Boris, Elliott and Min from the Kango team are at the BIL Conference. BIL is an “unconference” that is community organized by the participants, free, and completely emergent. It is called BIL because it is across the street from TED, an elite conference that connects people from different fields to think broadly about trends and ideas that they normally don’t come into contact with. BIL aims to do the same thing, costs nothing, and anyone can come (but capped at about 200 because of the facility limitations). See the BIL wiki to get a sense of this emergent experience.
I’ve had a great time so far! We brought our own camp chairs, helped set up the room, posted the conference schedule on the Web at my personal Elliott Ng blog. Our biggest contribution was having Boris speak about semantic analysis of travel reviews, which is one of the underlying technologies of the Kango.
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[...] just gave his talk on Semantic Analysis. I posted the slides on the Kango blog. Here it is directly from Scribd: [...]
[...] brought our own chairs and even a monitor since we were not sure if there would be a projector for Boris’ presentation. It turned out that we underestimated the power of open-source [...]
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