21 October 2010

Comparing Bounds

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This is something that's bothered me for quite a while, and I don't know of a good answer.  I used to think it was something that th...
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05 October 2010

My Giant Reviewing Error

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I try to be a good reviewer, but like everything, reviewing is a learning process.  About five years ago, I was reviewing a journal paper an...
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24 September 2010

ACL / ICML Symposium?

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ACL 2011 ends on June 24, in Portland (that's a Friday). ICML 2011 begins on June 28, near Seattle (the following Tuesday). This is pr...
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15 September 2010

Very sad news....

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I heard earlier this morning that Fred Jelinek passed away last night.  Apparently he had been working during the day: a tenacious aspect o...
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13 September 2010

AIStats 2011 Call for Papers

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The full call , and some changes to the reviewing process . The submission deadline is Nov 1, and the conference is April 11-13, in Fort La...
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07 September 2010

Manifold Assumption versus Margin Assumption

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[This post is based on some discussions that came up while talking about manifold learning with Ross Whitaker and Sam Gerber , who had a gr...
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31 August 2010

Online Learning Algorithms that Work Harder

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It seems to be a general goal in practical online learning algorithm development to have the updates be very very simply.  Perceptron is pro...
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27 August 2010

Calibrating Reviews and Ratings

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NIPS decision are going out soon, and then we're done with submitting and reviewing for a blessed few months. Except for journals, of c...
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23 August 2010

Finite State NLP with Unlabeled Data on Both Sides

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(Can you tell, by the recent frequency of posts, that I'm try not to work on getting ready for classes next week?) [This post is based p...
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21 August 2010

Readers kill blogs?

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I try to avoid making meta-posts, but the timing here was just too impeccable for me to avoid a short post on something that's been both...
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19 August 2010

Multi-task learning: should our hypothesis classes be the same?

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It is almost an unspoken assumption in multitask learning (and domain adaptation) that you use the same type of classifier (or, more formall...
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02 August 2010

Why Discourse Structure?

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I come from a strong lineage of discourse folks. Writing a parser for Rhetorical Structure Theory was one of the first class projects I had...
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24 July 2010

ACL 2010 Retrospective

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ACL 2010 finished up in Sweden a week ago or so. Overall, I enjoyed my time there (the local organization was great, though I think we got...
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28 June 2010

ICML 2010 Retrospective

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Just got back from Israel for ICML , which was a great experience: I'd wanted to go there for a while and this was a perfect opportunity...
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07 June 2010

NAACL 2010 Retrospective

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I just returned from NAACL 2010 , which was simultaneously located in my home town of Los Angeles and located nowhere near my home town of L...
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29 April 2010

Graduating? Want a post-doc? Let NSF pay!

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I get many of emails of the form "I'm looking for a postdoc...." I'm sure that other, more senior, more famous people get...
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20 April 2010

((A => B) and (not B)) => (not A)

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I remember back in middle school or high school -- added uncertainty so as not to date myself too much -- I first learned of the existence o...
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12 April 2010

How I teach machine learning

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I've had discussions about this with tons of people, and it seems like my approach is fairly odd. So I thought I'd blog about it be...
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07 April 2010

When Maximum Likelihood Doesn't Make Sense

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One of the most fun AHA moments in ML or stats is when you see that for multinomial distributions, your naive idea of relative frequency cor...
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01 April 2010

Classification weirdness, regression simplicity

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In the context of some work on multitask learning, we came to realize that classification is kind of weird. Or at least linear classificati...
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