26 April 2014

An easy way to write less hurtful reviews: don't say "you"

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I'll be honest: I've had my feelings hurt by scathing reviews more than a few times. In grad school I remember even crying over a re...
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14 April 2014

Waaaah! EMNLP six months late :)

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Okay, so I've had this file called emnlp.txt sitting in my home directory since Oct 24 (last modification), and since I want to delete ...
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16 September 2013

Active learning for positive examples

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I have a colleague who wants to look through large amounts of (text) data for examples of a pretty rare phenomenon (maybe 1% positive class,...
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08 July 2013

The *SEM 2013 Panel on Language Understanding (aka semantics)

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One of the highlights for me at NAACL was the *SEM panel on "Toward Deep NLU", which had the following speakers: Kevin Knight (USC...
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17 June 2013

My NAACL 2013 list...

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I feel a bit odd doing my "what I liked at NAACL 2013" as one of the program chairs, but not odd enough to skip what seems to be t...
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30 April 2013

What is a sparse difference in probability distributions?

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Sparsity has been all the rage for a couple of years now. The standard notion of "sparse" vector u is that the number of non-zeros...
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27 December 2012

Teaching (intro, grad) NLP

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I had a post a while back on teaching ML that I still basically stand by .  I've taught intro grad NLP here at UMD twice now, and a sor...
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09 December 2012

NIPS stuff...

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NIPS is over as of last night.  Overall I thought the program was strong (though I think someone, somewhere, is trying to convince me I need...
26 September 2012

Sure, you can do that....

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I'll warn in advance that this is probably one of the more controversial posts I've written, but realize that my goal is really to r...
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15 September 2012

Somehow I totally missed NIPS workshops!

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I don't know how it happened or when it happened, but at some point NIPS workshops were posted and papers are due about a week from now ...
13 June 2012

NAACL 2012 Retrospective

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Like many people, I spent last week in lovely Montreal (at least lovely for the second half) at NAACL.  Despite the somewhat unfortunate sub...
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18 February 2012

Making sense of Wikipedia categories

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Wikipedia's category hierarchy forms a graph. It's definitely cyclic (Category:Ethology belongs to Category:Behavior, which in turn ...
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11 February 2012

De-Authorship attribution

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I received the following (slightly edited) question from my colleague Jon Katz a few days ago: I was thinking about the problem of author...
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12 December 2011

It's that magical time of year...

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By which I mean NIPS, and the incumbent exhaustion of 14 hour days.  (P.s., if you're at NIPS, see the meta-comment I have at the end of...
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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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