15 December 2008

Interesting NIPS papers, take 1

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I just got back from NIPS. Kevin Duh was nice enough to forward his "top N" list of NIPS papers; I'll post my own shortly. ...
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07 December 2008

Two Reviewer Comments that Stuck with Me

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Over the years I've gotten a number of positive reviews and negative reviews. I usually remember few of the details of any more than a ...
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01 December 2008

Where did my (linear) model go wrong?

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Back to research-related posts for a while :). Let's say we're learning a predictor f and it doesn't get 100% test accuracy. ...
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24 November 2008

Supplanting vs Augmenting Human Language Capabilities

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With an analogy to robotics, I've seen two different approaches. The first is to develop humanoid robots . The second is to develop ro...
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04 November 2008

Using machine learning to answer scientific questions

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I tend to prefer research (and the papers that result from it) that attempt to answer some sort of question about natural language. And ...
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29 September 2008

Statistical Machine Translation Papers at COLING

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( guest post ) Not always is a major conference a short train ride away, so I went down to Manchester even though I had no real business bei...
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21 September 2008

Co-training, 10 years later

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At this year's ICML, they gave out a "10 year" award to a paper published in an ICML-related venue from 1998. This year it we...
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08 August 2008

Parallel Sampling

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I've been thinking a lot recently about how to do MCMC on massively parallel architectures, for instance in a (massively) multi-core set...
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29 July 2008

What Makes a Fair Comparison

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This issue seems to come up implicitly or explicitly in a large variety of circumstances. The general set up is this. Suppose that for som...
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21 July 2008

ICML/UAI/COLT 2008 Retrospective

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I know it's a bit delayed, but better late than never, eh? I have to say: I thought ICML/UAI/COLT this year was fantastic . The organi...
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08 July 2008

ICML Business Meeting

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Here are some points, coming to you roughly live. ICML 2009 will be in Montreal, June 15-19. Colocated with COLT (June 20-23) and Symposium...
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02 July 2008

ICML, UAI and COLT 2008 all WhatToSee'd

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See here
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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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