Today one of the hottest topics for debate focuses on what PostCSS really is: a postprocessor, a preprocessor, or something else, which, generally speaking, doesn’t have a particular significance. Summarizing all the existing viewpoints, we can say that PostCSS is a tool for transforming the initial CSS with JavaScript plugins (i.e. processors). At the moment, […]

You often read and hear similar questions from developers and students who are eager to participate in Big Data projects and invest their time or even capital in a study of tools that would allow them to start a project. A lot of materials are devoted to this subject, but today I will share my […]

Some science fiction writers predicted that in future robots would be just smart assistants to humans, following their rules and, except in rare cases, carrying out mundane tasks. In many ways their predictions are coming true right before our eyes. Being served by robot waiters or using chatbots in customer service don’t seem surprising anymore […]

The system was tested according to a small sampling of 50 questions in the given subject domain. The answer was accepted, if at least one of the options provided by the system could be found in the source encyclopedias, with an accuracy of 100%, the most accurate answer was at the top of the list, […]

As the team had extensive knowledge in Java software development and system integration, it was not difficult to grasp the basics of YodaQA. Its architecture is based on a pipeline created by IBM available now in Apache UIMA open source framework and on DKPro morphological parsers. An attempt just “to change the language” failed, as […]

Having access to enormous information resources is not equivalent to being able to use this information efficiently. The key issue is the availability of the search interface and retrieval of the required data. The development of such search engines as Google Custom Search helped considerably solve tasks on extracting relevant information from local repositories and […]