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What can NLP do in a Disaster?

by hagiwara on October 26, 2011 · No Comments

The paper we submitted to IJCNLP2011 has been accepted, and will be presented soon at the conference which will be held in a few weeks from now. The paper describes the #ANPI_NLP project, a voluntary relief project focusing on text and safety information mining in the wake of The East Japan Earthquake in March, 2011. [...]

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Unnatural Language Processing” (Journal of Natural Language Processing)

by hagiwara on August 21, 2011 · No Comments

The special issue “Unnatural Language Processing” of Journal of Natural Language Processing, for which I’m a leading editorial member, has started its call for paper a few weeks ago. This special issue, subtitled “Processing of Out-of-the-box Language Expressions” is the sequel to the past two events of “Unnatural Language Processing” last year. The topics include [...]

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 I especially enjoyed the session “NLP for Web2.0,” (this name is kind of outdated now I suppose ), where several researches on twitter information extraction and spelling correction [...]

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Disaster Information Processing and Unnatural Language Processing

by hagiwara on June 18, 2011 · No Comments

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 [...]

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