28 February 2007

Loss Functions for Chunking Tasks

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I feel like this is starting to be a bit of dead horse, but I wanted to follow up a bit on previous posts talking about f-score versus accur...
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25 February 2007

Language and X

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I feel it is increasingly interesting to look at problems that have both a linguistic and a non-linguistic signal. The simplest example I c...
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13 February 2007

I Don't Think We Understand Structured Prediction

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I've posted on structured prediction a few times before and then some . This is another post, but with a different perspective. B...
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10 February 2007

AI-Stats schedule/papers up

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The papers weren't listed in a single location, so I assembled them in one page . Looks like it should be fun (and sunny)!
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05 February 2007

Bag of Words citation

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I was recently asked by a colleague if I knew what the first paper was that used the bag of words model. I'm pretty certain it would b...
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03 February 2007

To err is human, but what about researchers?

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Errors happen and sometimes get in to papers. A recent example is the JAIR paper I had with Daniel on Domain Adaptation last year. I actua...
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28 January 2007

Good News on ACL Reviews

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I'm reviewing for ACL again this year (in the machine learning subcomponent). A couple of days ago, I received my notice to start biddi...
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25 January 2007

Error Analysis

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I was recently asked if I thought that it would be a good idea if our conferences were to explicitly require an error analysis to be perform...
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18 January 2007

Comments on: Mark-up Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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The " Last Words " article in the Dec 2006 issue of Computational Linguistics is by Annie Zaenen from PARC. (I hope that everyon...
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12 January 2007

Survey of Parser Usage

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I know people use parsers a fair amount; I'm curious which parsers people use. Thus, a new poll :). What I'm interested in, in par...
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07 January 2007

What Irks Me about E-mail Customer Service

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I hate dealing with customer service for large corporations, and it has little to do with outsourcing. I hate it because in the past few mo...
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NAACL Accepted Papers

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See here . I probably won't be going to NAACL, so if afterwards someone wants to volunteer to post a few papers they especially liked, I...
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02 January 2007

Learning when test and train inputs have different distributions -- NIPS workshop

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I spent the second day of workshops at NIPS (while not skiing) attending the Learning when test and train inputs have different distribution...
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20 December 2006

Back from NIPS

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The holidays are upon us (hence the lack of posts), but I wanted to give a brief nod to NIPS, which I thought went pretty well this year. T...
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20 November 2006

Feature engineering (with a coreference focus)

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I gave a talk today at our small group meeting about feature engineering for coreference resolution problems. I think it is oft underappre...
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17 November 2006

ICML 2007 webpage up

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ICML 2007 will be held in Oregon this year from June 20-24; more information is on the newly published webpage . (Sadly, this overlaps with...
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13 November 2006

Any Stem Cell Research?

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I was listening to NPR a few weeks ago while pre-election news was still accosting my ears. Though not in my state (shockingly!), there was...
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07 November 2006

Why Speech Summarization?

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The vast majority of work on summarization is at the text level. A document (or collection of documents) comes in as text, and a summary go...
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01 November 2006

Getting Started In: Sequence Labeling

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Okay, at long last it's time for another edition of "Getting Started In" (p.s., if you want to write one of these for your are...
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30 October 2006

The ACL Universe is now a Wiki

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See here .
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