If you have any suggestions or questions or comments, please feel free to add them here. We’ll take a look, we promise

• Might we consider pages devoted to NER, coreference resolution, discourse modeling, parse selection, corpora, etc? Or does this sound like too much work?
• How about an outside funding page, with links to NSF, academic, corporate, and other sources?

Remote Processes?

Ok, I have a question: how do I set a process running on a machine without being logged into a particular station?

I recall being told how to do a trick involving the “window” command (I think) which lets you connect with a process that’s already running on another machine. I have some very time consuming training processes to do, and I don’t want to leave one of the lab stations tied up while the gerbils are running.

Thanks,

Fred

Re: Remote Processes?

I use VNC to run my experiments. It’s a desktop-sharing program that lets you remotely control a computer using your keyboard and mouse. To share a desktop, you need to start the VNC server in a lab station. It then creates a new X desktop from which you can run your experiments. The server will keep running even after you log out of the lab station. You can use a VNC client (or the viewer) to access the newly-created X desktop from a remote location.

There are many implementations of VNC. An open-source implementation for Windows and Linux is TightVNC. For Mac OS X, there is a VNC client called Chicken of the VNC.

For a more fancy use of VNC, see this page.

John