17 February 2010

Senses versus metaphors

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I come from a tradition of not really believing in word senses. I fondly remember a talk Ed Hovy gave when I was a grad student. He liste...
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07 February 2010

Blog heads east

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I started this blog ages ago while still in grad school in California at USC / ISI . It came with me three point five years ago when I sta...
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31 January 2010

Coordinate ascent and inverted indices...

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Due to a small off-the-radar project I'm working on right now, I've been building my own inverted indices. (Yes, I'm vaguely aw...
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26 January 2010

A machine learner's apology

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Andrew Gelman recently announced an upcoming talk by John Lafferty . This reminded me of a post I've been meaning to write for ages (y...
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19 January 2010

Interviewing Follies

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Continuing on the theme of applying for jobs , I thought I'd share some interviewing follies that have happened to me, that I've obs...
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04 January 2010

ArXiV and NLP, ML and Computer Science

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Arxiv is something of an underutilized resource in computer science. Indeed, many computer scientists seems not to even know it exists, des...
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30 December 2009

Some random NIPS thoughts...

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I missed the first two days of NIPS due to teaching. Which is sad -- I heard there were great things on the first day. I did end up seeing...
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16 December 2009

From Kivenen/Warmuth and EG to CW learning and Adaptive Regularization

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This post is a bit of a historical retrospective, because it's only been recently that these things have aligned themselves in my head. ...
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17 November 2009

K-means vs GMM, sum-product vs max-product

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I finished K-means and Gaussian mixture models in class last week or maybe the week before. I've previously discussed the fact that th...
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07 November 2009

NLP as a study of representations

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Ellen Riloff and I run an NLP reading group pretty much every semester. Last semester we covered "old school NLP." We independe...
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06 November 2009

Getting Started In: Bayesian NLP

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This isn't so much a post in the "GSI" series, but just two links that recently came out. Kevin Knight and Philip Resnik bo...
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21 October 2009

Convex or not, my schizophrenic personality

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Machine learning as a field has been very convex-happy for the past decade or so. So much so that when I saw a tutorial on submodular optim...
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25 September 2009

Some notes on job search

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There are tons of "how to apply for academic jobs" write-ups out there; this is not one of them. It's been four years (egads!...
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09 September 2009

Where did you Apply to Grad School?

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Ellen and I are interested (for obvious reasons) in how people choose what schools to apply to for grad school. Note that this is not the...
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07 September 2009

ACL and EMNLP retrospective, many days late

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Well, ACL and EMNLP are long gone. And sadly I missed one day of each due either to travel or illness, so most of my comments are limited t...
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14 August 2009

Classifier performance: alternative metrics of success

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I really enjoyed Mark Dredze's talk at EMNLP on multiclass confidence weighted algorithms , where they take their CW binary predictors a...
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03 August 2009

ACS: Machine Translation Papers at EMNLP

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[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...
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