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ACL Reference Age

Why does it feel like no one cites papers from before 2020 any more?
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NLP Conference Rankings

Ranked according to how much fun they are to say.
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Visualizing CoNLL NER Embeddings

What happens if you visualize the embeddings of every CoNLL tag?
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Multilingual Data Stats

TLDR Multilingual Wikipedia is about 80GB.
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XNLI, Cross-lingual Natural Language Inference

I didn't make it, but I tried to explain it.
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The Machine Learning Model Library of Babel

In this library, all possible machine learning models exist.
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2020 NLP Wish List

Things I would like to see happen in NLP in 2020.
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Vocabulary in Allennlp

tldr; always include test in your config.
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Can you use BERT to generate text?

No.
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Entities are Important

Who cares about NER anyway?
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Cross-lingual Transfer of Named Entity Recognizers without Parallel Corpora

I recently came across this paper: Cross-lingual Transfer of Named Entity Recognizers without Parallel Corpora, by Ayah Zirikly and Masato Hagiwara, published in IJCNLP, 2015. It’s very related to my research, so I wanted to write a short review.

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Workshop on Balto-Slavic NLP

This year, the 6th Workshop on Balto-Slavic NLP was held, co-located with EACL 2017, in Valencia, Spain. The associated shared task was formally called Multilingual Named Entity Recognition, but in fact consisted of 3 subtasks:

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Kids Books

I read a fair number of kids books in my line of work. Some are excellent, while others should never have been published. Here's a short record (updated sporadically).
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Supervision

How many different types of supervision are there? I've collected as many as I could find, along with an example paper.
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Lexical features compared to Brown Cluster features for NER

Lexical features vs brown clusters
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How to programmatically train LBJava

You CAN teach an old classifier new tricks.
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How to use illinois-ner with Maven

Here are some crazy tips UIUC researchers are freaking out about!
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Remote Server Workflow

A note on how I set up and use a testing server.
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How Many Languages Per Script?

Language stats
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Weights in LBJava

How to get weights in LBJava
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Illinois Transliteration

How to use illinois-transliteration
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Retrofitting Retrofitting

My thoughts and experiments on the retrofitting paper.
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Handglovery

This is my first post, please do not be alarmed.
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