30 December 2009

Some random NIPS thoughts...

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I missed the first two days of NIPS due to teaching. Which is sad -- I heard there were great things on the first day. I did end up seeing...
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16 December 2009

From Kivenen/Warmuth and EG to CW learning and Adaptive Regularization

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This post is a bit of a historical retrospective, because it's only been recently that these things have aligned themselves in my head. ...
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17 November 2009

K-means vs GMM, sum-product vs max-product

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I finished K-means and Gaussian mixture models in class last week or maybe the week before. I've previously discussed the fact that th...
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07 November 2009

NLP as a study of representations

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Ellen Riloff and I run an NLP reading group pretty much every semester. Last semester we covered "old school NLP." We independe...
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06 November 2009

Getting Started In: Bayesian NLP

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This isn't so much a post in the "GSI" series, but just two links that recently came out. Kevin Knight and Philip Resnik bo...
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21 October 2009

Convex or not, my schizophrenic personality

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Machine learning as a field has been very convex-happy for the past decade or so. So much so that when I saw a tutorial on submodular optim...
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25 September 2009

Some notes on job search

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There are tons of "how to apply for academic jobs" write-ups out there; this is not one of them. It's been four years (egads!...
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09 September 2009

Where did you Apply to Grad School?

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Ellen and I are interested (for obvious reasons) in how people choose what schools to apply to for grad school. Note that this is not the...
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07 September 2009

ACL and EMNLP retrospective, many days late

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Well, ACL and EMNLP are long gone. And sadly I missed one day of each due either to travel or illness, so most of my comments are limited t...
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14 August 2009

Classifier performance: alternative metrics of success

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I really enjoyed Mark Dredze's talk at EMNLP on multiclass confidence weighted algorithms , where they take their CW binary predictors a...
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03 August 2009

ACS: Machine Translation Papers at EMNLP

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[Guest Post by Adam Lopez ... thanks, Adam! Hal's comment: you may remember that a while ago I proposed the idea of conference area cha...
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01 August 2009

Destination: Singapore

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Welcome to everyone to ACL ! It's pretty rare for me to end up conferencing in a country I've been before, largely because I try to...
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21 July 2009

Non-parametric as memorizing, in exactly the wrong way?

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There is a cool view of the whole non-parametric Bayes thing that I think is very instructive. It's easiest to see in the case of the P...
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05 July 2009

Small changes beget good or bad examples?

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If you compare vision research with NLP research, there are a lot of interesting parallels. Like we both like linear models. And condition...
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30 June 2009

ICML/COLT/UAI 2009 retrospective

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This will probably be a bit briefer than my corresponding NAACL post because even by day two of ICML, I was a bit burnt out; I was also cons...
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25 June 2009

Should there be a shared task for semi-supervised learning in NLP?

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(Guest post by Kevin Duh . Thanks, Kevin!) At the NAACL SSL-NLP Workshop recently, we discussed whether there ought to be a "shared t...
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20 June 2009

Why I Don't Buy Clustering Axioms

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In NIPS 15, Jon Kleinberg presented some impossibility results for clustering . The idea is to specify three axioms that all clustering fun...
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