26 March 2008

N-best lists and duplication

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One thing that continually irks me about (some varieties of) n-best lists is duplicates. Duplicates typically arise due to an "arg max...
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22 March 2008

ICML/UAI/COLT Workshops Posted

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See here for the current list. They include: Nonparametric Bayes (woohoo!), machine learning and music, Bayesian modeling applications, pr...
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19 March 2008

What to do with a million summaries?

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Let's pretend. Let's pretend that someone gave you one million document/summary pairs. If you like single-document, pretend they...
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12 March 2008

ACL papers up

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As Chris Brew pointed out, ACL accepts have been posted . In keeping with tradition, here are some of the top key words (stemmed, with stop...
20 February 2008

ACL 2008 Workshops and Tutorials

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The list of workshops and tutorials for ACL is now up. There are actually two separate workshops on MT! I'm particularly excited to...
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10 February 2008

Kernels, distances and strings

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Kernels and distances are closely related. Given a kernel K(x,z), this induces an RKHS H such that K(x,z)= , where f is the mapping from th...
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03 February 2008

The behemoth, PubMed

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The friend I crashed with while attending SODA is someone I've known since we were five years old. (Incidentally, there's actually...
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22 January 2008

An NLPer in the Algorithmists Court

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I just returned from SODA (the Symposium on Discrete Algorithms). Obviously (I suppose), I didn't have a paper there, but I was intere...
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19 January 2008

We're hiring machine learning/robotics...

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Just a quick note because this is a bit off-topic for this blog, but I wanted to let you all know that this year, we're trying to hire a...
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17 January 2008

Syntax-based and syntax-informed translation

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Happy new year, all... Apologies for being remiss about posting recently. (Can I say "apologies about my remission"?) This post ...
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27 December 2007

Those Darn Biologists...

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I've recently been talking to a handful of biologists. The lab/bench kind, not the computational kind. As an experiment in species obs...
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18 December 2007

Particle filtering versus beam search

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I had a very interesting discussion at NIPS with Vikash Mansingka about beam search and particle filtering . Much of what is below is a re...
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12 December 2007

NIPS retrospective

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I got back from NIPS on Sunday; sadly I got sick on the last day. Despite this, it was by far my most productive conference ever . Admitt...
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30 November 2007

Domain adaptation vs. transfer learning

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The standard classification setting is a input distribution p(X) and a label distribution p(Y|X). Roughly speaking, domain adaptation (DA) ...
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23 November 2007

NIPS 2007 Pre-prints Up (and WhatToSee-d)

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NIPS 2007 preprints are online, with a big warning that they're not final versions. Be that as it may, I've indexed them on WhatTo...
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19 November 2007

Translation out of English

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If you look at MT papers published in the *ACL conferences and siblings, I imagine you'll find a cornucopia of results for translating i...
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15 November 2007

NetFlix "solved" (the small version)

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See the post on Hunch . Maybe that last 1.5% might benefit not from fancy ML, but from fancy (or even stupid) NLP. "But what data do ...
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12 November 2007

Understanding Model Predictions

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One significant (IMO) issue that we face when attempting to do some sort of feature engineering is trying to understand not only what sorts ...
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25 October 2007

Non-parametric versus model selection/averaging

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Non-parametric approaches (probably the most familiar of which is the Dirichlet process, but there are a whole host of them) are nice becaus...
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19 October 2007

Gender and text, gender and speech

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For some crazy reason I decided a while ago that I wanted to learn Japanese. Essentially, I wanted to learn a language as unlike English as...
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