Next Big Ideas in NLP This post is a summary of the "Next Big Ideas" session at ACL: established members of the NLP community formed a panel presenting their view of the future of the field. The session featured a series of talks and a panel from Heng Ji,
Learned Incremental Representations for Parsing: Studying the ACL 2022 Best Paper This year's ACL 2022 best paper was on the topic of incremental parsing. Parsing is something that's been well studied in the NLP, Computational Linguistics fields before. So why does this year's best paper laud a work on a topic that some might have
Why I stopped using Mendeley as a reference manger As any student or academic would tell you, keeping track of references is essential. That's why tools such as Mendeley [https://mendeley.com/] and Zotero [https://www.zotero.org/] are
Cambridge OU12 Module: HPC for deep learning guidebook OU12 HPC RDP moduleHPC best practices for deep learning How not to waste time, money, or resources James ThorneGoogle Docs [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kbLp5wVr5CCcGSoOl6pmQXdtABYVwKKtX3ZvVo4JHYs/edit#slide=id.
Travelling to Korea and the Quarantine Arrangements I've recently travelled to Korea. While most of Europe has allowed quarantine-free travel, most visitors to Korea must undergo mandatory quarantine. And, without a long term visa or residency status,
Adding binding offsets for printing in Latex, the easy way After completing my thesis, I needed to add binding offsets for printing. When I wrote my thesis, it was examined electronically and submitted as a PDF file. When you are
Managing environments in Docker for artificial intelligence research Docker is a great resource for virtualizing environments. It makes deploying code and work to any environment super simple. In research, it also helps make projects repeatable and shareable through
Backing up Overleaf content to GitHub Overleaf has become an essential tool for my academic work, allowing collaboration with my team and giving the ability for me to work on manuscripts on any computer without the need for extra tools. While the tooling has a large feature set and is
Comparing the Zachman Framework, TOGAF and MoDAF Enterprise Architecture was introduced to address system complexity and poor business alignment. Typically: * IT systems have become unmanageably complex or too costly to maintain * IT systems are hindering an organisations ability to respond to market conditions in a timely and cost-effective manner * Mission-critical information
Processing Wikipedia in a few hours on a single PC Wikipedia is a valuable resource to build Natural Language Processing systems for tasks such as Question Answering [https://github.com/facebookresearch/DrQA] and Fact Verification [http://fever.ai]. However, the sheer size of the resource can become an obstacle for new starters or those
Adding a custom homepage on Ghost As part of my setup for Ghost, I wanted to have a custom editable home page as well as a listing of recent blog posts. While getting this set running was quite simple to do, there weren't many tutorials around explaining how to do
