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Configure Cendio ThinLinc Server on Pop_OS!

In order to run ThinLinc Server on Pop_OS! An additional profile needs to be created

$ sudo nano /opt/thinlinc/etc/conf.d/profiles.hconf
default=pop
order=unity ubuntu gnome gnome-classic kde xfce cinnamon mate lxde pop  <-------
[... rest of file ...]
[/profiles/pop]
xdg_session=pop
name=Pop
description=The Pop_OS Gnome desktop environment
screenshot=
cmdline=
testcmd=
description_from_testcmd=false

For details see:

Respondus 4.0

Respondus 4.0® is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, and other learning systems. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved between different learning systems. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus 4 will save you hours on each project.

https://web.respondus.com/he/respondus/ [accessed: 27/05/2023]

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https://ois.atu.edu/2018/08/respondus-4-0-test-creator-update/ [accessed: 27/05/2023]

Review:

spaCy

Extremely promising new Python NLP tool: spaCy (commercial open-source software):

Unfortunately, it is only able to deal with English input at the moment and installation on Windows seems to be tricky. The project is currently under intense development and it will be interesting to check the following links on a regular basis:

Link to github project

Link to documentation

License: AGPLv3 (free for open-source projects), changed to MIT License (27 Sep 2015)

24-07-2015 15-22-36

 

Source: http://spacy.io/index.html#detailed-speed-comparison [accessed: 24/07/2015]

New release: textblob-de 0.4.2

New release of German language extension textblob-de for the popular textblob package:

Latest version Travis-CI Travis-CI Number of PyPI downloads LICENSE

See overview of working features compared to main package.

Overview for development branch: Click here.

CQPwebInABox

CQPwebInABox running on VMware Player

CQPwebInABox running on VMware Player

Excellent news! A couple of days ago, Andrew Hardie released a virtual machine with a preconfigured version of CQPweb installed:


> From: a.hardie(*at*)lancaster.ac.uk
> To: cwb(*at*)sslmit.unibo.it
> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 05:20:33 +0000
> Subject: [CWB] Announcing CQPwebInABox
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> This is just a quick note to announce the availability of CQPwebInABox
> – a virtual machine image containing a pre-installed copy of CQPweb.
>
> This is designed to get beginners past the hump of having to install
> all the different components.
>
> The image (1.6GB) can be downloaded here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cwb/files/CQPwebInABox/
>
>
> To run it, you will need to install VirtualBox (although I believe
> other virtualisation tools can also use the same file format, I haven’t
> yet tested this).
>
> You can get VirtualBox here:
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> Then “import appliance” from the .ova download.
>
> The virtual machine runs Linux – however, I have set it up in such a
> way as to make the interface as similar to Windows as possible. So
> don’t fear the Linux!
>
> I will create some video tutorials & put them on YouTube as soon as I can.
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> best
>
> Andrew.

CQPweb

2024-11-06 Developer / Project Head: Andrew Hardie
Purpose/Version/Date web interface to cwb stable: 3.2.43 dev: 3.3.15 6 November 2024 Platform/License web-based (also on localhost) open source License: GNU GPLv2+ Price/Availability free Programming Language(s): php, mysql, Perl Key features: SERVER INSTALLATION, MANAGE YOUR OWN CORPORA, WEB INTERFACE, CQP QUERIES Website: CQPweb project page Website: CQPWeb SVN Repository Website: UCREL Lancaster Corpus Server (free access to a lot of corpus resources after registration, including the extended Brown-family of corpora) Website: CQPweb at Beijing Foreign Studies University – Large Number of publicly accessible corpora (username: test, password: test) Website: CQPweb Video Tutorials Website: CQPwebInABox Video Tutorials
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textblob-de

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VIEW (Visual Input Enhancement of the Web):

Instant colourization of grammar structures, instant learning activities from any page on the web. Supported languages: English, German, Spanish.

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