What I'm doing

Notes on current "to read" lists and other things to publically share

To Read

COLING 2018

lazy link: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/venues/coling/

• First Workshop on Linguistic Resources for NLP

  • Using Linguistic Resources to Evaluate the Quality of Annotated Corpora

    Max Silberztein

  • Rule-based vs. Neural Net Approaches to Semantic Textual Similarity

    Linrui Zhang

    Dan Moldovan

  • Contemporary Amharic Corpus: Automatically Morpho-Syntactically Tagged Amharic Corpus

    Andargachew Mekonnen Gezmu

    Binyam Ephrem Seyoum

    Michael Gasser

    Andreas Nürnberger

• First International Workshop on Language Cognition and Computational Models

  • Detecting Linguistic Traces of Depression in Topic-Restricted Text: Attending to Self-Stigmatized Depression with NLP

    JT Wolohan

    Misato Hiraga

    Atreyee Mukherjee

    Zeeshan Ali Sayyed

    Matthew Millard

  • Language-Based Automatic Assessment of Cognitive and Communicative Functions Related to Parkinson’s Disease

    Lesley Jessiman

    Gabriel Murray

    McKenzie Braley

  • Can spontaneous spoken language disfluencies help describe syntactic dependencies? An empirical study

    M. Zakaria Kurdi

Blogs

• Faculty of Language
• Omer Preminger
• Heidi Harley
• Particle Linguistics?
• Alex Marantz

My job?

I feel that if I’m going to name this page as I have, I should mention that I am currently employed…. I am officially a machine learning engineer, though I have yet to code any models. Mostly I advise folks about how to organize their annotations and their models based on linguistic principles and NLP best practice. My current crusade is support of stopword removal. (My coworkers don’t know about the crusade. It’s a sneeky one. Shhh.)

I work on Xfinity Assistant and sometimes the X1 voice remote or the home IOT devices. Not the devices themselves of course– the logic for them.

Standard important disclaimer (maybe I need to make this more prominent…). Opinions are my own.