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Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI.
F. Jelinek (1997), Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
#NLP

"Enel inagurates 10 MWh second-life battery project at Italian airport"
#Italy #Batteries #Energy

Enel inagurates 10 MWh second-life battery project at Italian airport
Enel’s Pioneer project is expected to last 10 to 15 years and has been integrated with Rome-Fiumicino airport’s Solar Farm, self-consumption PV system.

Steelers signed Aaron Rodgers after failing on two other QB options, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-signed-aaron-rod…

The Trump administration said it would send 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles after a second day in which protesters confronted immigration agents during raids of local businesses
Governor Newsom calls Pete Hegseth’s threat of calling up the Marines ⭐️ ‘deranged’
https://www.…

National Guard to be sent to L.A. amid clashes; Newsom calls Hegseth's threat of Marines 'deranged'
The Trump administration said it would send 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles after a second day in which protesters confronted immigration agents during raids of local businesses.

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

Quantitative stability control of the full spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian by the second eigenvalue
Alexis de Villeroch\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05870

Quantitative stability control of the full spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian by the second eigenvalue
Let $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be an open set of finite measure and let $Θ$ be a disjoint union of two balls of half measure. We study the stability of the full Dirichlet spectrum of $Ω$ when its second eigenvalue is close to the second eigenvalue of $Θ$. Precisely, for every $k \in \mathbb{N}$, we provide a quantitative control of the difference $|λ_k(Ω)-λ_k(Θ)|$ by the variation of the second eigenvalue $C(d,k)(λ_2(Ω)-λ_2(Θ))^α$, for a suitable exponent $α$ and a positive…

An improved upper bound for the second eigenvalue on tori
Fan Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05846 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05846

An improved upper bound for the second eigenvalue on tori
In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the second non-zero eigenvalue $λ_2(T,g)$ of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a torus $(T,g)$, among all unit-area metrics in a fixed conformal class. Based on work by Karpukhin-Stern and Eddaoudi-Girouard, we give an explicit upper bound for $λ_2(T,g)$ in a fixed conformal class of the torus. Our bound improves previous estimates based on conformal area and shows that, in the majority of conformal classes, the second eigenvalue is strictly…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Siouxsie and the Banshees:
🎵 Dear Prudence
#SiouxsieandtheBanshees
https://cleopatrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/dear-prudence-la-scaltra
https://open.spotify.com/track/34tFidHrETMAjsiK87WVVW

Last preparations for the upcoming International Semantic Web Research Summer School 2025, before traveling the last leg of the journey from Bologna to Bertinoro tomorrow.
@… #semweb #semanticweb

ESWC 2025 has just started with the presentation of the submission numbers to the individual tracks:
research track: 98 papers
resource track: 36 papers
in-use track: 22 papers
Looking forward to great presentations and discussions!
#eswc2025 #semweb