Alexander Mikhailian

Automated Focus Extraction for Question Answering over Topic Maps

This one was written for TMRA'09.

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Intervat or Fight agains the electronic windmills

Belgium has a multitude of e-government solutions. Local residents have now ID cards in the form of a banking card with a chip, there are services to order certificates online with these cards, pay taxes and check for medicines.

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Справа по борту бесплатный вайфай!

Моряки учебного парусника «Мир» в порту Антверпена. Интересно, им всем Acer'ы выдают, или так случайно получилось?

Беларусь — марская дзяржава!

Гл. сьцяг уверсе.

Job Architect. Helping companies write job ads

First appeared in westartup.eu

Nowadays, IT companies do not rely on intermediates when looking for new employees. They use the Jobs sections of their websites, advertise on Stepstone, Monster or LinkedIn. They use the power of the word-of-mouth. In the ongoing battle for the new talent, the attractiveness of the job ad for the company is as important as that of the resume for an applicant. However, many IT job ads are written either by the middle management or by HR, that is, people who are likely to miss the most attractive features of the new position by sheer lack of domain knowledge.

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Create a public poll service with eID authentication for Belgians

First appeared in westartup.eu

The eID is not only a small piece of plastic that replaces your old cardboard national ID card, but a means to electronically sign legally binding documents.

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Write a useable FP7 proposal collaboration tool

Appeared originally in westartup.eu.

There are already some FP7-related services, two clicks from the google home page, but they are mostly about consulting or badly written tools that none uses anyway.

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Use version control software for lawmaking processes

Originally published in westartup.eu.

As usual, the US is ahead of the rest of the world with the law.gov initiative that formalizes and makes available in a useful way all existing information pertaining to the country's legal system. It is important to change the lawmaking processes so that they create data in ways that are immediately useful by services like law.gov.