From the monthly archives: June 2011
I think I’m a quick learner when it comes to languages. After learning several languages (some of which are successful, others are not), I found that the effective ways to learn languages do not vary very much from one language to another — reading aloud, repetition, and shadowing, which are actually used well-established training methods [...]
It’s already the final day of ACL-HLT 2011. Overall, I enjoyed the conference very much, listening to new ideas, algorithms, tasks, and meeting old acquaintances, friends, and meeting new researchers, whether from Japan, the U.S., or abroad. I especially liked the presidential speech by Kevin Knight at the banquet on the second day. What would [...]
The big difference of this year’s ACL is that they have made public the best papers before the main conference started. Two of the best papers are both graph-based, although I don’t think this is an evidence that the recent research trend is toward graph-based models. An important thing here is that what is truly [...]
The first day of ACL-HLT 2011 main conference is now over, I pretty much enjoyed listening to talks and meeting researchers I know after a long time. I especially enjoyed the session “NLP for Web2.0,” (this name is kind of outdated now I suppose ), where several researches on twitter information extraction and spelling correction [...]
The first day of ACL-HLT 2011, tutorial, is now finished. I’ve listened to the following two sessions, and I liked the Marius Pasca’s talk about query log very much. I just cut & paste my memos below. I think I have mainly written down what has NOT been said in the slides (or handouts). I [...]
Now getting ready to set off to Portland to participate ACL-HLT 2011. I’ve learned that Portland is a little bit cooler than New York. Hope I can meet you guys there at the venue. After 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, we had some opportunities to write / talk about the ANPI_NLP (ANPI stands for “safety [...]
The (probably most important) NLP international conference ACL-HLT 2011 is coming up next week. I’ve prepared my presentation (After I received my colleagues’ nice comments), so I upload the camera ready and the PPT slides here. We, short paper presenters, only have 10 minutes each, excluding questions and answers. This limitation forces me to remove [...]
It’s only been one week since I began learning Clojure programming but I already started to like it! One of the many nice features of Clojure which I like the most is it’s parallel processing by “pmap” — a parallel version of “map”. Below is a simple demonstration how to use this parallel computation and [...]
We, my wife and I, have recently participated in an international conference on Chinese education resource and material held at Columbia University here in NYC. For this, we’ve done a small scale research project regarding the effectiveness of NLP analysis to Chinese reading comprehension. The research is summarized in the following page. HSK self-check tool [...]
It’s been two months since I’ve relocated to here in NYC. Although I already had some apartment-hunting experience in Nagoya, Tokyo, Beijing, etc., but hunting an apartment here in NYC is also a whole lot different experience. You can find tons of “apartment hunting tips” sort of pages on the web, so I only list [...]
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Masato Hagiwara currently works for Rakuten Institute of Technology in New York, as a Senior Scientist. Have worked on search technologies at Google, Microsoft Research, and Baidu in the past. Expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Also a lead translator of the O'Reilly book "Natural Language Processing in Python." A native speaker of Japanese. Good command of English and Chinese (Mandarin). For more information, see About Me.Pages
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