Category: Research

After the conference, there were two days of workshops. I had applied for the BioNLP workshop in which Marinka and I have won the Gene Regulation Network Shared Task (GRN ST). Throughout the first day of the workshop, researchers presented some general work in the field of BioNLP domain. I…

This morning’s keynote was given by Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Washington, Dr. Chantel Prat. She focuses mostly into cognitive science. The most interesting part of her presentation I think it was a comparison of monolinguals and bilinguals at problem solving. Her findings show that…

In the morning there was a keynote given by Lars Rasmussen who got his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, then worked in his own start-up that was bought by Google. At Google he was then working on Google Wave and now he is employed at Facebook, where he is…

Today it was the official conference opening. Obviously, this year’s ACL is one of the biggest conferences. There were almost 1000 papers submitted with acceprance rate of 26%. During the conference there will also be presentations of journal papers from the new Transactions of ACL. The keynote was given by…

In May 2013 I had a simple tutorial about Hidden Markov Models. I introduced the type of algorithm, presented forward/backward algorithm, inference using Viterbi and show a toy example on a simple sentence. Video (if you do not see it, go to http://optilab.viidea.net/zitnik_hidden_markov_models):