30 October 2015

How sausage got made once

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When I was working on what turned into an old short paper ( Markov Random Topic Fields ) I decided it might be pedagogically interesting to ...
20 October 2015

Results of NAACL 2015 post-conference survey are up

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http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_NAACL#UPDATE_20_OCT_2015.2C_NAACL_POST-CONFERENCE_SURVEY
05 October 2015

A small observation for prepubs on arxiv

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The question of how "traditional conference publication" should react to arxiv prepublications is raised quite frequently. I'm...
11 September 2015

How long'll it take to say that?

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tl;dr: Given a string of text in some language you might want to know how long it would take to speak it. Here are some perl / python ...
08 September 2015

Overfitting

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Many students, in response to their assigned reading for today's undergrad ML class , asked me for a formal definition of overfitting. T...
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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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