30 October 2006

The ACL Universe is now a Wiki

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See here .
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28 October 2006

NIPS and NAACL workshops

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Just a few pointers for things that seem at least somewhat related. At NIPS this year, we have: Learning to compare examples Machine Learni...
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26 October 2006

Saving Read Papers, Revisited

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So, why am I interesting in how you save read papers ? Well, I don't want to ruin the surprise yet. First, let's take a look at th...
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20 October 2006

Saving Read Papers

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I'm going to have a go at doing a mini-poll. Basically, I'm interested in whether or not papers you have read (and, presumably, fin...
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18 October 2006

The Shared Task Effect

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Shared tasks have been increasing in popularity over the past half decade. These are effectively competitions (though perhaps that word is ...
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11 October 2006

Two More Competitions

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Busy week this is! Here are two more pointers. ClearForest semantic web service : they want you to do a mashup using their IE technology an...
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10 October 2006

Scaling and Data

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In NLP, we often live in the idealized learning world where we have more data than we really know what to do with. The oft-cited Banko + Br...
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NIPS papers up

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http://nips.cc/Conferences/2006/Program/schedule.php
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06 October 2006

Resources for NLP

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Just a quick pointer that was referred to me. In addition to the well known Stanford StatNLP link list , Francois-Régis Chaumartin also mai...
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02 October 2006

I'll Take Movie Recommendations for $1m, Alex

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If you feel like you have the world's greatest recommender system, you should enter the NetFlix challenge for improving their movie rec...
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29 September 2006

Doing DP Clustering? Don't Sample!

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Dirichlet process techniques are increasingly popular tools for Bayesian analysis. There's not enough space here to describe how they w...
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23 September 2006

Humor is Hard

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Several months ago I became temporarily interested in trying to automatically identify if entries in online discussions are informative, int...
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17 September 2006

Statistical NLP is not NLP but just Statistics?

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bact' brings up an interesting point, perhaps more provocative than my original (intended-to-be provocative) pseudo-question. To quote...
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08 September 2006

Multilingual = Not Lingual at All?

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There has been a trend for quite some time now toward developing algorithms and techniques to be applicable to a wide range of languages. E...
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26 August 2006

NLG on NPR

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I heard a story on NPR while driving today that referenced a recent Financial Times story about the use of natural language generation tec...
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25 August 2006

Doing Named Entity Recognition? Don't optimize for F1

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(Guest post by Chris Manning . Thanks Chris!) Among ML-oriented nlpers, using a simple F 1 of precision and recall is the standard way to ...
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24 August 2006

Machine learning has failed[?.]

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When I was visiting Singapore, Lan Man gave a talk at NUS right before mine (for extra fun, try to find her web site without using my link!...
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18 August 2006

Change of Notation

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Ed Hovy has a particular label he assigns to a large variety of work in NLP: it performs a change of notation . The canonical example is P...
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13 August 2006

Human in the Loop Learning

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What we, as NLPers, typically do vis-a-vis machine learning is what might be called "Human in the Loop" machine learning. Why? T...
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04 August 2006

Future DUC Tasks

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The Document Understanding Conference features a yearly summarization competition. For the past few years, the task has been query-focused...
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