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This year I had the opportunity to visit 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (also known as NAACL 2019) in Minneapolis, USA. This year’s NAACL was unlike any other year. The highlight of this year’s conference was focus on Diversity and Inclusion. The central goal of this committee was to ensure that every NAACL participant feels at home and does not face any challenges at the conference.

Some of us are really excited about the prospect of learning a new language. Unlike in regular language classes, we begin with by learning the vocabulary. We ask for translations of real-world objects and day-to-day activities. We do not try to learn already known concepts, for example the concept tree. Instead, we learn the corresponding word used to represent the concept (tree). This is different from how children first learn a language.

The Neural NER system implemented by me as part of the papers TALLIP paper and ACL 2018 Paper achieves the following F1-Scores on various languages. Results Language Dataset Word Embeddings Reference F1 Score English CoNLL 2003 Spectral Embeddings Arxiv Paper 90.94 Spanish CoNLL 2002 Spectral Embeddings Arxiv Paper 85.75 Dutch CoNLL 2002 Spectral Embeddings Arxiv Paper 85.20 German Link Spectral Embeddings ACL 2018 Paper 87.64 Italian Evalita 2009 Spectral Embeddings ACL 2018 Paper 75.

If language is a medium of communication then words are symbols of communication. Words represent some concepts which when agreed upon by both the parties involved, make the information conveyed unambiguously. How do these words behave? Can we somehow model the behaviour of words? Let us consider a corpus as some closed system. We care only about the particles inside this closed system and not about any outside influence. In thermodynamics, the particles of interest are molecules and their kinetic energies.

Let me directly cut to the chase. It’s been a question which is constantly pestering me from many days. It’s a simple question, “What is the relation between marriage, love, cheating and promiscuity”. The blog though does not answer this question, as it is difficult to find any answer but the effort is to search for one. Marriage: Have you ever wondered why one should get married? Well apart from a study which said Cancer survival rates are higher if you are married.

I had gained interest in Trekking. Here is a list of trekking spots visited by me and which you should never forget to visit. Tikona Fort Rajmachi Kothaligad Sagargad Raigad Fort Mahuli Fort Katraj Sinhagad Night Trek Korigad Fort Kalavantindurg Stay Tuned for more updates