14 October 2011

You need a job and I have $$$

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If you're an NLP or ML person and graduating in the next six months or so and are looking for a postdoc position with very very open goa...
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11 October 2011

Active learning: far from solved

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As Daniel Hsu and John Langford pointed out recently , there has been a lot of recent progress in active learning. This is to the point w...
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29 September 2011

A technique for me is a task for you

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Originally in the context of Braque and now in the context of FUSE , I've thought a bit about understanding the role of techniques and ...
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26 September 2011

Four months without blogs

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As you've noticed, I haven't posted in a while.  I've also not been reading blogs.  My unread number of posts is now 462.  Clear...
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07 July 2011

Introducing Braque, your paper discovery friend

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(Shameless plug/advertisement follows.) Want to be informed of new interesting papers that show up online? Tired of trolling conference ...
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06 July 2011

The conference(s) post: ACL and ICML

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I'm using ACL/ICML as an excuse to jumpstart my resumed, hopefully regular, posting.  The usual "I didn't see/read everything...
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07 May 2011

CI Fellows Program, again

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Are you graduating and interested in doing a fun postdoc in your area of choosing on your project of choosing?  Apply to be a NSF CI Fellow ...
12 April 2011

Google scholar "cited by" changed recently???

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Someone (can't remember who anymore, even though it was just a couple days ago!) pointed out to me that Google scholar seems to be doing...
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06 April 2011

Seeding, transduction, out-of-sample error and the Microsoft approach...

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My past master's student Adam Teichert (now at JHU) did some work on inducing part of speech taggers using typological information.  We ...
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10 March 2011

Postdoc Position at CLIP (@UMD)

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Okay, now is why I take serious unfair advantage of having this blog.  We have a postdoc opening.  See the official ad below for details: ...
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08 March 2011

Some thoughts on supplementary materials

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Having the option of authors submitting supplementary materials is becoming popular in NLP/ML land.  NIPS was one of the first conferences I...
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02 March 2011

Grad school survey, revisited

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You may recall a while ago I ran a survey on where people applied to grad school . Obviously I've been sitting on these results for a w...
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28 February 2011

What are your plans between ACL and ICML?

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I'll tell you what they should be : attending the Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing , jointly sponsored by...
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17 January 2011

Parsing with Transformations

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I remember when I took my first "real" Syntax class, where by "real" I mean "Chomskyan." It was at USC in Fal...
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11 January 2011

NIPS 2010 Retrospective

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Happy New Year and I know I've been silent but I've been busy.  But no teaching this semester (YAY!) so maybe you'll see more po...
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18 November 2010

Crowdsourcing workshop (/tutorial) decisions

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Everyone at conferences (with multiple tracks) always complains that there are time slots with nothing interesting, and other time slots wit...
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09 November 2010

Managing group papers

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Every time a major conference deadline (ACL, NIPS, EMNLP, ICML, etc...) comes around, we usually have a slew of papers (>=3, typically) t...
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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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