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Extracting Multilingual Parallel Sentences from tatoeba.org

by hagiwara on July 21, 2011 · 5 Comments

I recently found out that tatoeba.org is a pretty nice resource for collecting parallel text in many languages. The major reason why I love it is that the whole data is downloadable as a dump file, with all the sentences being under the creative commons license (although there are some mistakes in the sentences). Specifically, [...]

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“ACL2040” — Imagining ACL in 30 years from now

by hagiwara on June 24, 2011 · No Comments

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 [...]

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THINK GLOBAL — ACL-HLT 2011 Main Conference Day 2

by hagiwara on June 23, 2011 · No Comments

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 [...]

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My ACL-HLT 2011 Presentation

by hagiwara on June 16, 2011 · No Comments

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 [...]

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