JSesh News

Experimenting with deep learning

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As everyone (well, probably almost everyone) interested in Natural Language Processing, I have started playing with deep learning. Deep learning (which is basically a new name for neural networks allows a computer to automatically learn to perform a task, given a (usually huge) number of examples.

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Java 9, Mac OS X, and JSesh 6.5.10

Java 9 has just been released. As always, there are problems with brand new versions. In the case of JSesh, it looks most of the software runs fine.

However, the way a java software interacts with Mac-specific functions (such as the Application Preference, and the way to open a file by clicking on...

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Tutorial updates

The tutorials are now available as HTML5 videos. No more need for Flash!

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New JSesh Web site

The old JSesh web site used Drupal 5, which is a nice software, as its basis. Unfortunately, Drupal's current version is now 8, and upgrade from 5 to 8 is quite costly.

For safety reasons, I have decided to use a simpler software, called Grav, instead of Drupal. In the processed, I have removed th...

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Sinuhe

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M. Kaan Eraslan, currently doctoral student in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, has kindly sent me a version of Sinuhe for inclusion in the JSesh library.

Thanks a lot for this welcome addition !

It will be included in the next versions of JSesh, but meanwhile I give you a link to it.

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Revised revised pack translit...

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ok, there was a small problem in three of the fonts of the "pack translit". It's solved now, so, if the yod gave bad result with Word you can download the new version. It should be ok.

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Revised version of "pack translit"

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I'm happy to announce a new version of the "packtranslit" bundle.

Transliteration and Unicode : we all need to transliterate text, but we used to have all sorts of problems with fonts. I have updated my "keyboards", which you can use to type transliteration in an easy way: download

Along those...

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Mac OS X, java 8 and JSesh

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JSesh currently uses a nice library, called Quaqua, to be more Mac-OSX compatible... However, Quaqua development seems to be over (the Java 8 version is still listed as "unstable", so I'm not going to use it).

Jsesh is still functional, but has lost a bit of user-friendliness. For instance, use of...

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Quoting JSesh

Quoting JSesh:

On the various pages about JSesh, I have misspelled the URL for JSesh documentation. Some !@𓀑 of lowlife internet scum took advantage of this to create a website with the misspelt URL, hosting malware on it.

So, the correct way to quote JSesh is : Rosmorduc, Serge. (2014). JSes...

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Kuban Stela

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The Grenoble Museum hosts the Kuban stela, a beautiful monument of Ramses II. Their website allows detailed examination of the text, and also has a nice translation of the stela by Bernard Mathieu. See it here

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