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Best paper preamble: changes to reviewing process,…

Best paper preamble: changes to reviewing process, author response loop. ~800 submissions, mostly long papers #emnlp2013

Yarowsky’s thanks are SO NICE. His gratitude is so clearly genuine. #bestchair #emnlp2013

Yarowsky: 20 years of bitext had 70 registrants and 140 attendees [shakes metaphorical finger: “naughty naughty”] #emnlp2013

Closing remarks from Yarowsky. Only 14% female 🙁 Almost 300 new ACLers this year. #emnlp2013

RT @scotthorn: @trochee Annealing in MERT is the name of my Smashing Pumpkins cover band.

Realizaation: Jason Eisner is possibly the only person in NLP who audibly talks faster than ME. #NLP #subtweet

Eisner to G: “you haven’t drunk all your kool-aid: auto-optimize hyperparam from unsupervised results?” G: yes, extrinsic eval? #emnlp2013

Hwang to Ganchev: is your parallel data hand-translated? G: “hand translated… we hope.” [laughter] #emnlp2013

RT @jacobeisenstein: Very philosophical ending to Val spitkovsky’s #emnlp2013 talk: unlearning is key to learning, so don’t let yesterday’s…

Ganchev & Das: also working on x-lingual NE segmentation (what, no shout out to cartouche, Rosetta Stone or Champollion?) #emnlp2013