Jian Wu

Digital Libraries and Search Engines

• CiteSeerX (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/)

• Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)

• Microsoft Academic Search (http://academic.research.microsoft.com/) 

• ACM Digital Library (http://dl.acm.org/)

• IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/)

• Computing Research Repository in arXiv (http://arxiv.org/corr/home)

• ResearchGate (http://www.researchgate.net/)

• Arnetminer (http://aminer.org/)

• Internet Archive Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/web/)

• Common Crawl (http://commoncrawl.org/)

• Semantic Scholarly by AllenAI (http://s2.allenai.org)

The Seer Family

• CiteSeerX, RefSeer, Collabsee, ChemxSeer, SimSeerX, AckSeer, Enthicseer, CSSeer, BBookX, ArchSeer

• citeseerextractor

• Semantic Entity Extraction

• IBM AlchemyAPI, Thomson Reuters Open Calais 

• word2vec

• CoNLL (2000, 2003)

• SENNA

• Phrase mining: Segphrase (weakly supervised), TopMine (unsupervised)

• Entity typing: ClusType

• Label noise reduction: Partial-Label Embedding

• IlliMine (UIUC data mining research package dissemination portal)

• Lookup Tables (Regular Expression Syntax, Penn Treebank Part-of-Speech Tags) 

Digital Library

• TEI Guidelines, An Introduction to TEI

• Dublin Core on Wikipedia

• Knowledge Bases

• Wikipedia API

• DBPedia Online Access

• YAGO

• Freebase

• WordNet (Home, Search, Rion Snow's Homepage)

• GeoNames

• Glossary and Dictionaries

• List of programming and computer science terms (LabAutoPedia.org)

• GeoNames geographical database (gazetteer; http://www.geonames.org/)

• United States Census Bureau name database (http://www.census.gov)

Solr

• Apache Solr

• SolrJ Wiki

• Confluence: running Solr on Tomcat

• Solr Cache Explained 

• Static Solr Log Analysis 

• Solr: Improve Search Speed 

• Understanding and tuning your Solr caches 

• Tuning the Log Server

• Solr Configuration Best Practices and Troubleshooting Tips 

• LucidWorks: Cache Settings 

• Solr Wiki: Solr Performance Factors 

• SolrPerformanceProblems 

• HowToReindex 

• Solr4 on IBM  

• SolrRelevancyFAQ 

• 6 deadly sins in the context of Query 

• Solr Schema.xml 

• Apache Lucene: Index File Format

• Integrating Solr

Java

• Oracle Java SE documentation: using jconsole 

• Understanding Java Garbage Collection (GC) by Sangmin Lee

• How to Monitor Java Garbage Collection (GC) by Sangmin Lee 

• How to Tune Java Garbage Collection by Sangmin Lee 

• MaxClients in Apache and its effect on Tomcat during Full GC by Sangmin Lee 

• The Principles of Java Application Performance Turning by Sangmin Lee

• How Statement Pooling in JDBC affects the Garbage Collection by Sangmin Lee

• Configuring JDBC Connection Pool 

• Oracle: Diagnosing a Garbage Collection Problem

• Oracle: Using JConsole 

• Oracle: Monitoring and Management using JMX Technology 

• Spring MVC Fast Tutorial: Model View Controller

• How to read Java thread dump files

Ruby on Rails

• Meteor tutorial

• Ruby on rails (turoial point, book, rubyonrails.org)

• Ruby tutorial (tutorial point)

• Web Crawling

• List of Crawlers and Spiders 

• White Paper: The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value 

• Heritrix 3.0 and 3.1 User Guide

• Heritrix Processor Settings

PDF Text and Metadata Extractors

• CiteSeerX Extractor (http://citeseerextractor.ist.psu.edu:8080/static/index.html)

• CERMINE (http://cermine.ceon.pl/index.html)

• PDFLib TET (http://www.pdflib.com/products/tet/)

• GROBID (http://grobid.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)

• ParsCit (http://aye.comp.nus.edu.sg/parsCit/)

• Dr. Inventor Extraction Lib (http://backingdata.org/dri/library/1.3/)

Tomcat

• Apache Tomcat Connector 

• Hanging by a Thread—3 Steps to Troubleshooting Tomcat (TomcatExpert.com) 

Networking

• Enterprise Network Planet: Networking 101 

• Open Source performance testing tools

• TCP/IP Guide - TCP/IP Termination 

• Fail2Ban (iptables security software)

Hardware 

• Six Tips for Selecting HDD and SSD Drives

Linux

• Monitoring Storage Devices with iostat by Jeff Layton

• Using Yum from the Command Line

• 18 commands to monitor network bandwidth on Linux server by Binary Tides

• GNU GCC compiler official website

• Fedora EPEL yum repo

• ss: display Linux TCP/UDP socket and connection information

• lsof: Find out how many file descriptors are being used

• KEMP technology load balancer

• Yum command cheat sheet

• Linux Packages Search (pkgs.org)

• Linux key board shortcut

• Bash Reference Manual

• A Tmux Primer

Python

• The lxml.etree Tutorial (at lxml.de, at new Mexico tech)

• Python regular expressions (regex) by examples

• Python regular expression (regex) testing tool

• PyMOTW - threading

• Tutorialspoint - threading 

• Programtic Unicode 

• scikit-learn online manual and introduction

• Python csv – Comma-separated value files

• Python new style formating cookbook

• Neural network packages (PyBrain, scikit-learn, Brain, Neurolab)

• Python format 

MySQL

• Choosing innodb_buffer_pool_size 

• MySQLdb Tutorial

• Tuning MySQL Parameters 

• Tuning MyISAM Key Buffer 

• MySQL Server Tuning (posted Aftab Khan at blogspot). 

• Repair a MyISAM Table 

• Backup and Restore MySQL database tables using mysqldump 

• MySQL 5.6: Up to 230% Faster!  

• Knowledge base: MySQL 5.1 vs. 5.5 vs. 5.6 Performance Comparison 

• MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Comparison 

• Stackoverflow: upgrading MySQL from 5.1 to 5.6 

• Upgrade MySQL from 5.1 to 5.5  (Redhat, Oracle)

• Upgrade MySQL on a replication setup 

• DBA on StackExchange 

• A quick guide to using MySQL yum repository

• mysqlfailover -- installation and operation tutorial

• Moving or Copying InnoDB Tables to Another Machine 

• InnoDB Backup and Recovery

• innodb troubleshot from MySQL

Tutorials

• JSP - Standard Tag Library (JSTL) Tutorial

• Deep Learning (deeplearning.net)

• SVM Tutorial

• MapReduce Tutorial (www.mapr.com)

Course Notes

• Thorsten Joachims Machine Learning Class Notes

• James Matis Statistics Class Notes 

• CMPSC 497B/ 597B Big Data Analytics by Dan Kifer

• Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville

Data Repositories and Data Sets

• UCI Machine Learning Repository 

• MediaWiki Database Schema

• Ranking web of repositories 

• Medline/PubMed Baseline Database Distribution

• Film Corpus 2.0

• Research papers in Economics 

• MUC data sets (MUC-6, MUC-7) 

• Microsoft Probase

• Microsoft Academic Graph

Blogs

• Comparison between NoSQL database management systems - Kristof Kovacs

• Upgrade Solr from version 1.3 to 4.9 for CiteSeerX - Po-Yu Chuang

• 白衣咸饭

• Penn State Office of Digital Pegagogy and Scholarship 

• Unmount: device is busy: why? 

• Good logging practice in Python 

• Command-line printing and options (lpr, lp) 

• Open Source Testing Tools: Which One Should You Use?

• Configuring jdbc-pool for high concurrency

• MIT Technical Review

• How to use 7zip on Linux command line

• Po-Yu Chuang's blog on setting up SolrCloud

Software Packages

• SNAP web visualization toolkit by Jure Leskovec 

• Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Program 

• Redis - Open source data structure server 

• Apache Mesos

• Apache Aurora

• Apache JMeter

• Apache Zeppelin

• PDFFigures by AllenAI (github)

• The Stanford Parser: A statistical parser

• FrameNet SPARQL-DL API

• Semanticizer by University of Amsterdam

• Google Tensorflow

• Google SyntaxNet

Homepages

• Niel Brandt

• C. Lee Giles

• Hung-Hsuan Chen (Penn State), 陳弘軒 (Chinese)

• Kyle Williams

• Madian Khabsa 

Presentations

• The MySQL Ecosystem at Scale by Jeremy Cole, Google, Inc.

• Cloud Resources

• Amazon Glacier

• Amazon Redshift

• NSF CloudLab

• NSF Chameleon Cloud

Teaching Courses

• IST 210 ( Dr. Dashun Wang, Fall 2015, Dr. Zhenghui Li (login required) )

• IST 431W ( Yu-San Lin )

 Job Finder

• http://www.higheredjobs.com/

• ACM Job Finder

• Computing Research Association Job Finder 

• DBWorld Job Listing

• How to write a research statement provided by Cornell University postdoc affairs 

Conferences and Journals

• WikiCFP

• International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)

• AAAI/IAAI 

• IEEE Transactions on Big Data (IBD)

• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 

Others 

• CiteSeerX papers indexed by Google

• CiteSeerX on Google Analytics

• USCIS - check Status

• Penn State - DUO (2 factor authentication. 2fa.psu.edu)

• IST Intranet (intranet.ist.psu.edu)

• Edx (learn from the best, anytimie, anywhere)

• Expressing Dublin Core metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)

• NSF Proposal Latex Template (MIT Mathematics)

• ACM Student Research Competition

Online Tools

• ​Data Center Capital Cost Calculator 

• Amazon Simple Monthly Calculator

• HTML URL Escape Reference

• Gmail Advanced Search Options

• Cryptographic Key Length Recommendation by Damien Giry 

• Penn State IST Intranet 

• Google Charts

• Wikipedia API (MediaWiki API) 

• Porter Stemming Online 

• Snowball Stemming Online 

• Online Simplified/Traditional Chinese Input 

• English Chinese Dictionary (eng.ichacha.net)

• Test Website Speed - www.webpagetest.org 

• CiteSeerExtractor

• Remove content from Google (check removed content)

• Google Webmaster Tools - Block URLs with robots.txt 

• SEOBook - robots.txt rules 

• MOZ - What is robots.txt? 

• Fotor - Online photo editor

• Authrea - new generatioin of Latex

• IP address range calculator

• Dictionary.com

• WordNet lookup

• IP lookup from tcpiputils.com

• RAID calculator from Netgear

• Online document editor: Madoko

• Online document editor: overleaf

• 100,000 stars from chromeexperiments

• Epoch converter, e.g., Calculate Datetime/Difference Online

• Tensorflow neural network testing browser

• Hemingway App 

• AlchemyAPI 

• Counter of Wikipedia articles (http://tools.wmflabs.org)