09 June 2015

Some NAACL 2013 statistics on author response, review quality, etc.

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NAACL 2015 has just passed, NAACL 2013 is long in the past. One bonus of being a program chair is that you get to have fun with data. In t...
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15 November 2014

The myth of a strong baseline

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I can probably count on my fingers the number of papers I've submitted for which a reviewer hasn't complained about a baseline in so...
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01 November 2014

EMNLP 2014 paper list (with mini-reviews)

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I'm going to try something new and daring this time. I will talk about papers I liked, but I will mention some things I think could be i...
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10 October 2014

Hyperparameter search, Bayesian optimization and related topics

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In terms of (importance divided-by glamour), hyperparameter (HP) search is probably pretty close to the top. We all hate finding hyperparame...
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03 October 2014

Machine learning is the new algorithms

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When I was an undergrad, probably my favorite CS class I took was algorithms. I liked it (a) because my background was math so it was the cl...
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27 September 2014

AMR: Not semantics, but close (? maybe ???)

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Okay, necessary warning. I'm not a semanticist. I'm not even a linguist. Last time I took semantics was twelve years ago (sigh.) L...
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31 July 2014

Reading group notes: point/counter-point on "predict models"

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In our local summer reading group, I led the discussion of two papers that appeared in Baltimore last month: Marco Baroni, Georgiana Dinu ...
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27 July 2014

Hello, World!

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Okay, usually Hello World is the first program you learn to write in a new programming language. For fun, I've been collecting how to sa...
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05 July 2014

My ACL 2014 picks...

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Usual caveats: didn't see all papers, blah blah blah. Also look for #acl14nlp on twitter -- lots of papers were mentioned there too! A...
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30 June 2014

Divergences passed through Bayes' rule

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In a previous post 's comments, we talked about Bayes rule and things like that. This got me wondering about the following question: ...
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02 June 2014

Role models

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During grad school, my advisor suggested I identify a recent grad who has been, to me, successful. I could then use him or her as a guide....
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30 May 2014

Past tense is not past tense

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I took part in a wonderful Dagstuhl workshop this past February on translating morphologically rich languages . (Yeah, I also don't real...
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