Dawid Weiss
News & Announcements
http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/dweiss/xml/news/index.xml
The news
[2010-05-18 22:13]
GeeCon 2010 presentation (slides and merged non-linear version).
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[2009-09-29 16:18]
New publication: "A survey of Web clustering engines" (ACM Computing Surveys)
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[2008-06-14 09:38]
New publication: "Modeling the frequency of phrasal verbs with search engines"
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[2007-12-23 13:03]
We have been awarded a research grant by Microsoft!
It's now official. Together with Wojtek Kotlowski and Krzysztof Dembczynski we have won a Microsoft grant for research on search advertising campaigns. Hurray!
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[2007-12-23 13:03]
Adam Dudczak's master thesis awarded in the PTI contest.
PTI is an association of computer scientists in Poland; they organize an annual constest for the best master thesis. I supported and helped Adam Dudczak and he received the second prize in this contest — excellent result!
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[2007-10-23 20:04]
IDSS seminar slides — capture-replay tests for J2ME.
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[2007-06-08 11:55]
I had a presentation about writing concurrent programs in Java (Threads, monitors, JVM memory model) at the Java Users Group Poznań.
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[2007-05-31 11:55]
A new publication: "Comprehensible and Accurate Cluster Labels in Text Clustering".
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[2007-04-27 19:08]
Information and release of "Rzeczpospolita" corpora of Polish news articles. (in Polish only)
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[2007-04-27 11:04]
A new publication: "Automated Integration Tests for Mobile Applications in Java 2 Micro Edition".
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[2007-04-21 16:50]
Check out an interview on SourceKibitzer [outlink] starring Staszek Osiński and me.
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[2007-04-20 10:30]
I had the pleasure of talking to members of Booboo [outlink] -- CS students' association. Together we tried to figure out how some of the old Amiga demo effects were implemented and watched some contemporary demoscene stuff.
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[2007-02-08 11:00]
I had the pleasure of talking at the Computer Science Contest for high school students. I tried to make the talk entertaining because people were already tired, so I showed how to write a simple, 2-hour game in Java.
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[2006-11-23 08:48]
A minor errata to my PhD thesis is available.
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[2006-10-19 15:28]
I'm out of office until mid- November.
[2006-10-16 15:44]
My doctoral dissertation is available.
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[2006-09-28 10:00]
You're invited to attend a public defense of my doctoral dissertation, October 13, 2006 (yes, Friday), room 06 of the Centrum Wykładowe, Piotrowo 2, Poznan, Poland.
[2006-09-27 21:19]
A major bug fixed in Stempelator/ FSA libraries. Upgrade when possible.
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[2006-06-24 18:06]
Java XSLT Filter — upgrade.
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[2006-06-21 13:31]
New version of Morfeusz-Java glue code.
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[2006-05-26 10:23]
An API update to Lametyzator has been published (version 1.0.1).
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[2006-05-15 13:31]
New version of Morfeusz-Java glue code.
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[2006-05-09 19:11]
Java XSLT Filter — production quality XSLT filter for Web applications in Java.
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[2006-04-20 17:32]
JUnit-Tomcat — a new project for convenient local testing of Web application using JUnit.
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[2006-01-17 00:12]
Release 1.0 of Carrot2 demos is out.
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[2006-01-10 12:00]
Awaria serwera Ophelia. Serwisy powinny byc stopniowo przywracane.
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[2005-11-30 10:42]
A fully fledged navigation system for mobile phones? Why not — NaviExpert is a recent project I was involved in.
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[2005-11-29 10:42]
Check out MEX Search — a visual clustering search engine with Carrot2 components inside.
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[2005-09-28 12:38]
I'm not enthusiastic about seo positioning contests. At least this one has a neat key phrase: MSNBETTER THANGOOGLE [outlink] :)
[2005-08-30 09:46]
A new publication: "Mining Clinical Data: Selecting Decision Support Algorithm for the MET-AP System"
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[2005-08-17 11:15]
Polish Grammar is Beautiful. The graph visualization series continues.
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[2005-08-16 19:20]
Morfeusz-Java release 1.1.1 is available.
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[2005-07-08 14:13]
A new publication: "A Concept-Driven Algorithm for Clustering Search Results" will be published this month in IEEE Intelligent Systems.
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[2005-07-08 13:13]
Two new conference publications: "Quantitative Analysis of Open Source Projects on SourceForge", "Measuring Success of Open Source Projects Using Web Search Engines".
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[2005-06-13 14:30]
A conference presentation: "Carrot2: Design of a Flexible and Efficient Web Information Retrieval Framework" is available
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[2005-04-25 14:52]
A conference presentation: "A Survey of Freely Available Polish Stemmers and Evaluation of Their Applicability in Information Retrieval" is available
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[2005-02-03 22:50]
An update to Lametyzator has been published. New dictionary and a tight integration with Stempel to create a hybrid stemmer.
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[2005-02-03 22:40]
A technical report about a hybrid, open source stemmer for the Polish language called Stempelator. Quite interesting if you're in the subject :)
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[2005-01-16 12:50]
A new interesting technical report presenting analysis of open source projects on SourceForge.
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[2004-12-04 19:09]
A curiosity, but looks quite nice: check out what my spam looks like :)
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[2004-12-04 16:00]
Some obsolete pages have been removed from the Web site. Let me know if you find broken links.
[2004-09-29 09:00]
Report from EASA 2004 finals (Carrot2 won special award for research tools!).
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[2004-09-29 08:00]
An interview with me has been published in Thinlet Titan series. Please check it out!
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[2004-08-07 14:42]
Carrot2 search engine clustering [outlink] project in the finals of EASA 2004 [outlink] competition.
[2004-08-07 14:42]
Andrzej Białecki has published an algorithmic stemmer for Polish. Check it out.
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[2004-06-21 11:37]
I've changed office address and telephone number.
[2004-05-25 21:00]
New release of ANT-DocBook-Styler: PDF generation capability added.
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[2004-05-21 13:00]
New publication: proceedings of the IIPWM conference; Lingo: Search Results Clustering Algorithm Based on Singular Value Decomposition.
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[2004-05-04 22:56]
Carrot2: An Open Source Framework for Search Results Clustering, poster from ECIR conference available
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[2004-04-28 20:40]
Elegant beamer slideshows in LaTeX (in Polish only)
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[2004-03-19 19:15]
New release of ANT-DocBook-Styler.
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[2004-02-16 23:30]
ANT-DocBook styler has been updated.
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[2004-01-07 12:30]
Presentation from the internal seminar at the Institute [outlink].
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[2003-12-17 13:02]
New publication: Conceptual Clustering Using Lingo Algorithm: Evaluation on Open Directory Project Data View link...
[2003-12-17 12:57]
New publication: Lingo: Search Results Clustering Algorithm Based on Singular Value Decomposition View link...
[2003-11-03 10:00]
My new telephone number: (+48 61) 877-18-15
[2003-10-31 13:30]
Ant-DocBook styler bug fixed.
The bug used to occur in Linux-ish systems only (incorrect paths)
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[2003-10-30 12:45]
CVS lab exercises available (in Polish)
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[2003-10-21 11:56]
Presentation from the search results clustering seminar at the Polish Academy of Sciences is available.
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[2003-10-17 16:20]
Poster session presentation from the Fifth KKIO conference is available.
An Ophelia poster and article has been presented at the Fifth KKIO (national software engineering) conference in Szklarska Poręba, Poland.
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[2003-10-04 9:47]
New resources for students.
I've redesigned a section of my Web page devoted to students and curricular matters.
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[2003-10-04 8:44]
My article about BeanShell has been published in JavaWorld
An article I wrote about binding BeanShell scripts to real Java classes has been published in JavaWorld. JavaWorld page screenshot
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[2003-09-16 13:39]
URL scheme changed (should not affect you).
URLs now don't include the PHP script that renders XML files into HTML. An HTTP header Moved Permanently is sent in response to old URLs, so this change should be invisible.
[2003-09-08 22:25]
New publication: A CORBA--Oriented Approach To Heterogeneous Tool Integration; OPHELIA
A new Ophelia publication from ESEC/FSE Workshop on Tool-Integration in System Development, Helsinki, Finland.
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[2003-09-02 08:00]
The happiest man on Earth.
Last Saturday, on the 30th of August I married Urszula. I'm very, very happy (although it's very distracting to type with that ring on :).
[2003-08-28 14:13]
SIN bugs fixed.
A couple of bugs from sin have been removed - Location redirection header, RSS icon etc.
[2003-08-26 12:22]
An RSS news stream is now provided for your convenience.
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[2003-08-11 00:00]
I'm back from holidays!
[2003-07-08 00:00]
New pictures in the gallery.
Some pictures from my summer hiking in the Tatra mountains.
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[2003-06-12 00:00]
Carrot [outlink] has been mentioned in KDNuggets News [outlink]!
[2003-06-10 00:00]
Carrot2 milestone report presentation is available.
[2003-06-09 00:00]
(one of the) IIPWM conference outcomes: pictures of the Tatra Mountains [outlink] in the gallery.
[2003-06-06 00:00]
The slideshow from IIPWM conference is available in publications section.
[2003-05-26 00:00]
New pictures [outlink] in the gallery
[2003-05-23 00:00]
Jak pisać pracę inżynierską/ magisterską? - zestaw wskazówek i materiałów dla studentów
[2003-05-09 00:00]
Smileys have been introduced! They will indicate new stuff on this web site.
[2003-05-09 00:00]
Introductory tutorial to creating Web applications in Java is available in presentations list (in Polish only).
[2003-05-07 00:00]
A lecture about the history of search engines is available (presented at the 10th anniversary of students' club Booboo [outlink] event)
[2003-04-30 00:00]
A new paper available - Environments to Support Collaborative Software Engineering
[2003-04-29 00:00]
Carrot2 binary prerelease and online demo available!
[2003-03-23 00:00]
A new paper available - Carrot2 and Language Properties in Web Search Results Clustering
[2003-03-23 00:00]
An introductory tutorial to XML, XSLT, XPath and other XML-derived technologies is available in presentations list.
[2003-03-19 00:00]
A friend of mine put up a Web page about our lovely Game - Wacuś the Detective [outlink]. Check it out (although it is in Polish :).
[2003-03-19 00:00]
Students section available (although not much in there yet).
[2003-03-12 00:00]
My master thesis have been honored with a Certificate of Appreciation from Université Paris Dauphine [outlink].
[2003-02-14 00:00]
Accepted paper for the New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining conference (see publications)
[2003-02-14 00:00]
Accepted paper for the 2nd Workshop on Cooperative Supports for Distributed Software Engineering Processes (see publications)
[2003-01-03 00:00]
My pictures [outlink] received honorable mention in the British Library picture contest and are on public display (Poznan, Ratajczaka street)
[2003-01-03 00:00]
My slideshow presented at our laboratory seminar about Carrot2 is available online in publications section.
[2002-11-15 00:00]
Java classpath mess solution: Invoker
[2002-11-05 00:00]
Updates and corrections to: (Web search results clustering in Polish).
[2002-10-23 00:00]
The new gallery reopened. [outlink]
[2002-10-21 00:00]
KKIO conference presentation slideshow available in PDF (publications section).
[2002-10-18 00:00]
Photo gallery temporarily unavailable. It will be moved to a separate domain.
[2002-10-18 00:00]
SIN upgrade. If you encounter any problems, let me know.
[2002-10-18 00:00]
"Take off these goggles for awhile" [outlink] article is available online (in Polish).
[2002-10-14 00:00]
Polish dictionary stemmer has been made available.
[2002-10-14 00:00]
A conference paper submitted (Web search results clustering in Polish).
[2002-10-14 00:00]
A new version of FSA-Java is available, bug fixes plus new release pack.
[2002-10-14 00:00]
One of my pictures was used for a promo poster of Ophelia [outlink].
[2002-09-27 00:00]
A tiny on-the-side design project: website for the Roman Law Faculty [outlink] has been deployed.
[2002-09-01 00:00]
Ophelia project meeting yield more than just meeting minutes... Amazing pictures of Scottish highlands can be found here. [outlink]
[2002-09-01 00:00]
CampIsFun.org [outlink] project started.
[2002-08-29 00:00]
New publication: my article "Take off these goggles for awhile" has been published in the Polish edition of CHIP magazine. [outlink]
[2002-08-20 00:00]
I am back from vacation.
[2002-07-16 00:00]
I am out of office from July 18th to August 18th. E-mails should be answered, but you may expect longer delays.
[2002-07-11 00:00]
A new picture "Deszczowcy" in the gallery.
[2002-07-09 00:00]
A new picture "Cyclist" in the gallery.
[2002-07-02 00:00]
SCDP Conference slideshow can be found in publications section.
[2002-06-27 00:00]
SCDP Conference Proceedings abstract can be found in publications section.
Conference presentation abstract from the 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Distributed Processing, Rzeszów, Poland, 2002.
[2002-06-09 00:00]
New pictures added to the gallery.
New sections: funny pictures, hiking pictures. A new shot added to the "nice" section: "spiderman".
[2002-06-09 00:00]
Description of the Polish stemmer in English finished.
[2002-06-06 00:00]
A new paper: Traceability: Taming uncontrolled change in software development [in English]
A paper submitted to the IV KKIO conference [outlink] (national Software Engineering conference in Poland).
[2002-06-05 00:00]
A new publication: The price of e-Culture [in Polish]
A new publication in Polish (Magazyn Internet [outlink]) about the slow decay of moral values in the presence of easy information access and the internet. Instead of preaching, I wanted this article to be a peek into the (seems like) inevitable future of a cyberpunk-ish world we're heading towards. The article is available (in Polish only) in the publications section of this site.
[2002-05-29 00:00]
A new picture of me on the main page :)
Too many people told me the old one was cheesy :)
[2002-05-29 00:00]
New SIN version 0.3
XSLT templates rewritten, PHP engine reorganized and commented. NEWS template added, stylemap added.
[2002-05-27 00:00]
Photo gallery available. Check it out!
Finally, after all these years I have my own private gallery I can be proud of. I scanned my favorite pictures and put them on the web. You are welcome to browse and thanks to Kagi.com you can also purchase your personalized copy of selected pictures.
[2002-05-01 00:00]
New publication: Looking for a Needle in the Net
My article Szukajac igly w sieci (Looking for a needle in the Net) has been published in Magazyn Internet (in Polish only). The article is available online in PDF.

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