24 June 2008

ICML 2008 papers up

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See here . Has also been WhatToSee -d. Here are the top words (stems) from ICML this year: learn (53) -- no kidding! model (20) kernel (17)...
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23 June 2008

Help! Contribute the LaTeX for your ACL papers!

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This is a request to the community. If you have published a paper in an ACL-related venue in the past ten years or so, please consider cont...
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21 June 2008

ACS: ACL 2008 Summarization Track

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This is the first in what I hope will be a long line of "Area Chair Summaries" from NLP-related conferences. If you would like t...
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18 June 2008

CL is open access

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Just officially announced. Minor details: as of Mar 2009 (first issue next year), there will be no print version (electronic only) and will...
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15 June 2008

ACL 2008 What-To-See'd

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Sorry for the delay, but I had to wait until I got here and actually got the proceedings CD, since the proceedings don't yet seem to be ...
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11 June 2008

Old school conference blogging

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These days, the "conference blog" has come to be a fairly accepted part of an academic blogger's repertoire. I've actuall...
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10 June 2008

Evaluating topic models

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I think it's fair to say that I am a fan of the Bayesian lifestyle. I have at least a handful of papers with "Bayesian" in th...
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29 May 2008

Measures of correlation

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As NLPers, we're often tasked with measuring similarity of things, where things are usually words or phrases or something like that. Th...
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22 May 2008

Continuing bad ideas

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I occasionally--more than I would like--run in to the following problem. I am working on some task for which there is prior work (shocking!...
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18 May 2008

Adaptation versus adaptability

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Domain adaptation is, roughly, the following problem: given labeled data drawn from one or more source domains, and either (a) a little labe...
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12 May 2008

Teaching machine translation

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Last Fall (2007), I taught an Applications of NLP course to a 50/50 mix of grads and senior undergrads. It was modeled partially after a c...
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23 April 2008

A Bit of Levity

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Some out there might find this amusing (if you know me, you'll know why). Semester's over; back to regular blogging soon!
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06 April 2008

ICWSM Report

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(Guest Post by Kevin Duh -- Thanks, Kevin!!!) I recently attended ICWSM (International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media), which consi...
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04 April 2008

More complaining about automatic evaluation

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I remember a few years ago complaining about automatic evaluation at conference was the thing to do. (Ironically, so was writing papers abo...
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01 April 2008

Should NAACL and ICML co-locate?

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It's been a while since we've had a survey, so here's a new one. The question is: should NAACL and ICML attempt to co-locate in...
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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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