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Web 2.0 is all about twitter??? ACL-HLT 2011 Main Conference

by hagiwara on June 22, 2011 · No Comments

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 I especially enjoyed the session “NLP for Web2.0,” (this name is kind of outdated now I suppose ), where several researches on twitter information extraction and spelling correction [...]

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Interesting facts about Web search queries

by hagiwara on June 21, 2011 · No Comments

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 [...]

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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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Calculating N-gram Statistics in a MapReduce way using Clojure

by hagiwara on June 11, 2011 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Effectiveness of Automatic Sentence Structure Analysis in Chinese Comprehension

by hagiwara on June 9, 2011 · No Comments

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 [...]

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