28 November 2016

Workshops and mini-conferences

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I've attended and organized two types of workshops in my time, one of which I'll call the ACL-style workshop (or "mini-conferen...
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08 November 2016

Bias in ML, and Teaching AI

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Yesterday I gave a super duper high level 12 minutes presentation about some issues of bias in AI. I should emphasize (if it's not cl...
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02 November 2016

ACL 2017 PC Chairs Blog

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In case you missed it, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, who are program chairs for ACL 2017, are running an open blog describing what they...
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24 August 2016

Debugging machine learning

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I've been thinking, mostly in the context of teaching, about how to specifically teach debugging of machine learning. Personally I find ...
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16 August 2016

Feature (or architecture) ablation

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I wrote my first (and only) coreference paper back in 2005. At the time, my goals were to (a) do well on coref, (b) integrate background kn...
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14 August 2016

Some papers I liked at ACL 2016

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A conference just ended, so it's that time of year! Here are some papers I liked with the usual caveats about recall. Before I go to t...
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05 August 2016

Fast & easy baseline text categorization with vw

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About a month ago, the paper Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Categorization was posted to arxiv. I found it thanks to Yoav Goldberg's ...
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29 July 2016

A quick comment on structured input vs structured output learning

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When I think of structured input models, I typically think of things like kernels over discrete input spaces. For instance, the famous all-s...
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26 July 2016

Decoding (neural?) representations

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I remember back in grad school days some subset of the field was thinking about the following question. I train an unsupervised HMM on some ...
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12 July 2016

Some picks from NAACL 2016

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Usual caveats: didn't see all talks, didn't read all papers, there's lot of good stuff at NAACL that isn't listed here! Tha...
05 July 2016

Rating the quality of reviews, after the fact

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Groan groan groan reviewers are horrible people. Not you and me. Those other reviewers over there! tldr: In general we actually don't ...
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30 June 2016

Subgradient descent, or something....

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Last semester from grad ML , I totally revamped stuff and started using the awesome book Understanding Machine Learning by Shai Ben-David a...
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