== Meeting: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 == * Time: 6-8 PM * Location: bivio Software, Inc., 28th and Iris, Boulder, CO. Above Hair Elite in Suite S. There is abundant parking. This coming Wednesday: * Steve Bethard will present on Python and Natural Language Processing: the computational semantics group at the University of Colorado at Boulder is interested in improving machine understanding of text by moving past the basic word-level approaches used by most commercial applications these days. Whether they're teaching computers how to tell a person from an organization, how to decide what order a set of events occurred in, or how to convert a document into a complex semantic graph, Python plays a key role in the process. Steve will be discussing a number of the uses they've found for Python, including the handling of complex data formats, modularizing their natural language processing components, and the different types of feature extraction they perform when building machine learning models. * Lightning talks for SciPy 2007. Are you working on a project combining scientific computing and Python? Feel free to try out an idea for a talk at SciPy on on our group with a 5-10 min informal presentation! The SciPy conference is Aug 16-17 at CalTech, and the deadline for abstracts is June 29. We will have free food & drink as usual. We're meeting from 6-8 PM at bivio Software, which is at 28th and Iris in Boulder, above Hair Elite in Suite S. For our next meeting (July 18), we will be having presentations showcasing web frameworks for Python. And we are planning to have a sprint or jam on Saturday, August 4 around web frameworks. More details to come. Hope to see you there Wednesday! More details: http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontRangePythoneers