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Some Thoughts on the Future of NLP Conferences
If you have been to ACL in Vancouver or followed the news on Twitter, you know that it was the biggest conference of its kind. And …
Dirk Hovy
Sep 19, 2017
6 min read
It’s All About the He Said, She Said―A Quantitative Analysis of the Three Presidential Debates
It’s All about the He said, She said―A Quantitative Analysis of the Three Presidential Debates The question what constitutes an …
Dirk Hovy
Oct 22, 2016
5 min read
Science’s genius complex
In a recent article in the New Yorker, James Surowiecki outlined how, back in the 1960s, professional athletes considered strength …
Dirk Hovy
Jul 6, 2016
3 min read
Fun with Movie Titles
As mentioned before, I sometimes use my academic knowledge of natural language processing for purposes other than research. A friend …
Dirk Hovy
Sep 18, 2015
2 min read
How usable is sentiment analysis?
Recently, I was interviewed by two students for a study on the business application of natural language processing technique called …
Dirk Hovy
Sep 18, 2015
3 min read
Wow: Such Meme, Much NLP, Very Generate!
I love natural language processing, I really do. I think it has the potential to make the world a little bit better, and like all …
Dirk Hovy
Sep 1, 2015
2 min read
Are our models ageist?
A number of comedies hinge on the premise of a young and an old person switching bodies. When a 45-year-old business woman says “’sup …
Dirk Hovy
Jul 10, 2015
7 min read
What I do: Learning whom to trust
Here, I’ll try to explain another paper I have worked on in generally understandable terms. This time, it’s about learning whose …
Dirk Hovy
Jan 11, 2015
6 min read
What I do: Significance Testing
As much as I love languages, one of the things that frustrated me in linguistics was the seeming arbitrariness of theories. There was …
Dirk Hovy
Jan 10, 2015
5 min read
How to be a Good Grad Student
After almost 5 years, I am finally done with grad school! I just started a postdoc, so this is probably a good time to look back. Two …
Dirk Hovy
Aug 19, 2013
9 min read
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