My lectures from Spring 2021's cs124, "From Languages to Information", our Stanford undergrad course introducing NLP, IR, chatbots, recommendation systems, social networks (+ some guest lectures from
@chrmanning
!) are now online, hope they're useful!
Here's the December 2021 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing, just in time for Jim and I to wish you all a Happy New Year! Enjoy!
Here's the Jan '23 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing. This is just a bug-fixing and chapter-refactoring release, to modernize the structure for teaching/learning. Best wishes from Jim and me for a healthy and happy New Year!
The Diversity Innovation Paradox in Science
Underrepresented groups introduce scientific novelty, yet it's less likely to bring them academic jobs.
Study by
@BasHofstra
,
@viveksck
, Sebastian Munoz-Najar Galvez, Bryan He,
@jurafsky
, & Daniel McFarland.
Planet Word, the world's first interactive museum of words and language, opens next May 31 in Washington, D.C.! Check it out here: .
I'm excited to be on the advisory board!
We have a postdoc position available! Come join our computational social science project on using NLP and speech processing on body-worn camera data to help improve police-community relations!
(3/3) We hope string2string will be a valuable asset for researchers & practitioners across NLP, bioinformatics, CSS, and the digital humanities. Join us in the world of strings! Code: Docs: Paper:
Maria Guarnaschelli, my amazing editor on The Language of Food, has passed away. I hear Maria's fierce loving voice in my head as I write, reordering and tightening and polishing the narrative arc. Lunch with Maria in Midtown was like being in a movie.
(2/3) Notable features include the Smith-Waterman, Hirschberg, Wagner-Fisher, and Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithms, neural techniques like BARTScore, BERTScore, and Faiss, sacreBLEU & ROUGE for evaluation, and visualization tools & metrics for interpretation and analysis.