natural language processing blog

my biased thoughts on the fields of natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL) and related topics (machine learning, math, funding, etc.)

14 August 2009

Classifier performance: alternative metrics of success

I really enjoyed Mark Dredze's talk at EMNLP on multiclass confidence weighted algorithms , where they take their CW binary predictors a...

03 August 2009

ACS: Machine Translation Papers at EMNLP

[Guest Post by Adam Lopez ... thanks, Adam! Hal's comment: you may remember that a while ago I proposed the idea of conference area cha...

01 August 2009

Destination: Singapore

Welcome to everyone to ACL ! It's pretty rare for me to end up conferencing in a country I've been before, largely because I try to...

21 July 2009

Non-parametric as memorizing, in exactly the wrong way?

There is a cool view of the whole non-parametric Bayes thing that I think is very instructive. It's easiest to see in the case of the P...

05 July 2009

Small changes beget good or bad examples?

If you compare vision research with NLP research, there are a lot of interesting parallels. Like we both like linear models. And condition...

30 June 2009

ICML/COLT/UAI 2009 retrospective

This will probably be a bit briefer than my corresponding NAACL post because even by day two of ICML, I was a bit burnt out; I was also cons...

25 June 2009

Should there be a shared task for semi-supervised learning in NLP?

(Guest post by Kevin Duh . Thanks, Kevin!) At the NAACL SSL-NLP Workshop recently, we discussed whether there ought to be a "shared t...

20 June 2009

Why I Don't Buy Clustering Axioms

In NIPS 15, Jon Kleinberg presented some impossibility results for clustering . The idea is to specify three axioms that all clustering fun...

14 June 2009

NL Generation: A new problem

Those who talk to me a lot over the years know that I really think that generation is a cool and interesting problem, but one that is hamper...

12 June 2009

NAACL-HLT 2009 Retrospective

I hope this post will be a small impetus to get other people to post comments about papers they saw at NAACL (and associated workshops) that...

09 June 2009

Navigating ICML

I couldn't find a schedule for ICML that had paper titles/authors written in, so I joined the existing schedule with the abstracts to cr...

08 June 2009

The importance of input representations

As some of you know, I run a (machine learning) reading group every semester. This summer we're doing "assorted" topics, whi...

01 June 2009

NAACL-HLT 2006 has been WhatToSee-d!

30 May 2009

Semi-supervised or Semi-unsupervised? (SSL-NLP invited papers)

Kevin Duh not-so-recently asked me to write a "position piece" for the workshop he's co-organizing on semi-supervised learnin...

29 May 2009

How to reduce reviewing overhead?

It's past most reviewing time (for the year), so somehow conversations I have with folks I visit tend to gravitate toward the awfulness ...

26 April 2009

Viterbi search, minimum Bayes risk and laplacian eigenmaps

I've been slow at posting because I wanted to post on this current topic for a while, but wanted to work out some more details before do...

24 April 2009

...and here it is for ACL

Papers are here . Words: translat (19) model (19) base (19) learn (16) semant (12) supervis (10) machin (10) depend (10) automat (...

23 April 2009

NAACL program up

See here . I see a bunch that I reviewed and really liked, so I'm overall pretty happy. (Though I also see one or two in the "oth...

22 March 2009

Programming Language of Choice

Some of you know that I (at least used to be) a bit of a programming language snob . In fact, on several occasions, I've met (in NLP ...

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