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Last Words: Improving Our Reviewing Processes
... earlier Last Words piece, Ken Church (Church 2006) pointed out how the ACL conference reviewing process can be derailed by the lack of positive endorsement by reviewers who are not well qualified to review a ...
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Last Words: Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork
... So, shall we eke out an incremental existence, parasitic on linguistic theories, lan- guage corpora, and machine learning algorithms developed by others? Are we content to tweak parameters and deliver results that are ...
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"Whose voice prevails? Jesus' last words and Lukan Christology."
... In contrast to Jesus other voices in the scene challenge and mock, ironically bringing into relief the identity of Jesus and his power to save himself and others. The leaders mock him as Messiah noting that while he can ...
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Last Words: That’s Nice What Can You Do With It?
... In human language technology HLT research, we currently report a range of evaluation scores that measure and assess various aspects of systems, in particular the similarity of their outp[r] ...
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Last Words: What Science Underlies Natural Language Engineering?
... The last two decades were marked by a complete paradigm shift in computational linguistics. Frustrated by the inability of applications based on explicit linguistic knowl- edge to scale up to real-world needs, ...
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Last Words: On Becoming a Discipline
... the last paragraph will be understood as referring to Franz, whereas in the reference text it is Miles Osborne who does the commending and the pointing ...sabbatical last year working on the Google ...
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Last Words: Breaking News: Changing Attitudes and Practices
... of words crashing up against conference deadlines and the veritable trickle reaching the editorial offices of the significant (and still growing) number of CL/NLP-related ...
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Last Words: What Can Be Accomplished with the State of the Art in Information Extraction? A Personal View
... Though machine learning applied to big data is producing remarkable results, a gap stands between capitalizing on human language content and the structured data needed by analytic tools. For instance, one can draw ...
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Last Words: What Computational Linguists Can Learn from Psychologists (and Vice Versa)
... “interesting” words are and then simply to count them in the relevant texts, without taking the linguistic context into ...at words in context and ...interesting words to ...
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Last Words: Empiricism Is Not a Matter of Faith
... If you do this from the beginning of a project it takes surprisingly little time, and you end up with much better documentation and software, and a system that can be easily and convenie[r] ...
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Last Words: Ancient Symbols, Computational Linguistics, and the Reviewing Practices of the General Science Journals
... The work has also apparently attracted attention beyond the popular science press and those with some sort of axe to grind on the Indus Valley issue, for in March 2010 there appeared in [r] ...
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Last Words: Amazon Mechanical Turk: Gold Mine or Coal Mine?
... We cannot conclude from these studies that the activity in MTurk should be considered as labor for all the Turkers, but we can at least for the minority 20% for whom MTurk represents a p[r] ...
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Last Words: Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning
... At the June 2015 opening of the Facebook AI Research Lab in Paris, its director Yann LeCun said: “The next big step for Deep Learning is natural language under- standing, which aims to give machines the power to ...
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Last Words: Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics?
... So it need not be a criticism of a linguistics journal like the one I get that it does not have more on computational linguistics, or natural language processing, or natural language eng[r] ...
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Last Words: Googleology is Bad Science
... It would have been convenient to use the Google API but it gave much lower counts than browser queries: A substantial number were one-eighteenth as large. Altavista, which has a reputation for NLP-friendliness, was also ...
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Last Words: Sharing Is Caring: The Future of Shared Tasks
... Applying this principle to shared tasks in practice, we propose making the primary competition a “public track,” where participants can use any code, data, and pre-trained models they want, as long as others can then ...
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Last Words: Are We Near the End of the Journal?
... on last year’s paper wrapped up as eight pages of text, with 50–75% being recycled from earlier publications: If this year’s contribution can be summed up in a few (numbered!) paragraphs, then these individually ...
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Last Words: The Shrinking Horizons of Computational Linguistics
... other words, language-related papers published in Artificial Intelligence (unlike papers in Computational Linguistics) show considerable awareness of the broader language research ...
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Scheduled Sampling for Transformers
... previous words in the sequence, not only on the last generated ...all words in the sentence, regardless of their respective ...the words is achieved by position em- beddings which are summed ...
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Choosing and using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in haemophilia
... the last 30 years using the following words or phrases: h(a)emophilia, arthropathy, pain management of haemophilia, NSAIDs, COX-2 inhibitors, gastrointestinal bleeding, cardiovascular risk, stroke, renal ...
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