17 June 2007

3 Small Newses

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(Yeah, I know, "news" isn't a count noun.) WhatToSee has been updated with ACL and EMNLP 2007, so figure out what talks you w...
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11 June 2007

First-best, Balanced F and All That

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Our M.O. in NLP land is to evaluate our systems in a first-best setting, typically against a balanced F measure (balanced F means that preci...
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05 June 2007

Tracking the State of the Art

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I just received the following email from Yoav Goldberg: I believe a resource well needed in the ACL community is a "state-of-the-art-re...
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01 June 2007

Open Access CL Proposal

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Following up on the Whence JCLR discussion, Stuart Shieber, Fernando Pereira, Ryan McDonald, Kevin Duh and I have just submitted a proposal...
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29 May 2007

Quality vs. quantity in data annotation

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I'm in the process of annotating some data (along with some students---thanks guys!). While this data isn't really in the context o...
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25 May 2007

Math as a Natural Language

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Mathematics (with a capital "M") is typically considered a formal language. While I would agree that it tends to be more formal...
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23 May 2007

ICML 2007 papers up

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See here ; there seem to be a lot of good-looking papers (I just printed about 20). It's already indexed on WhatToSee so go ahead and...
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15 May 2007

Whence JCLR?

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Journal publication is not too popular for NLPers -- we tend to be a conference driven bunch. While I could care less about some arguments ...
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09 May 2007

WhatToSee

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I've been using a small number of Perl scripts for helping me decide what papers to read and I just put them up on the web for people to...
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07 May 2007

Non-linear models in NLP

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If you talk to (many) "real" machine learning people, they express profound disbelief that almost everything we do in NLP is based...
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03 May 2007

Future DUC Plans

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(Guest post by Lucy Vanderwende -- Thanks, Lucy!) There was a general sigh of relief upon hearing the proposal for the next DUC to occur in...
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29 April 2007

Problems with Sometimes-hidden Variables

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Following in the footsteps of Andrew , I may start posting NLP-related questions I receive by email to the blog (if the answer is sufficient...
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27 April 2007

EMNLP papers, tales from the trenches

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First, EMNLP/CoNLL papers have been posted . I must congratulate the chairs for publishing this so fast -- for too many conferences we have...
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19 April 2007

Searn versus HMMs

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Searn is my baby and I'd like to say it can solve (or at least be applied to) every problem we care about. This is of course not true....
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17 April 2007

ACL papers up

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List is here . Top stemmed, non-stop words from titles are: Model (22) Tranlat (16) Languag (16) Machin (15) Learn (15) Base (14) -- as in ...
12 April 2007

Multinomial on a graph

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I'm going to try something here to see if it works; my guess is not, but maybe it will at least spark some discussion. (I'm also te...
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07 April 2007

AI Stats post mortem

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Got back from AIStats a week or so ago; overall, I enjoyed it. Though by the end, I was totally sick of Puerto Rican food. (I'm a huge...
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05 April 2007

Discourse is darn hard

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Discourse is an area I've been peripherally interested in for quite a while; probably unduly influence by my advisor 's (ex-?)intere...
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04 April 2007

Very Sad News

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Karen Sparck-Jones passed away this morning. You can find more information about her here and in many other places on the web. I, persona...
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31 March 2007

Poker Face

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Apologies for the long silence -- life got in the way. Part of life was AIstats, which I'll blog about shortly, but I'm waiting for...
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