DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.
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Omak Stampede Indian Encampment
Indian Encampment Dancing pictures on Flickr.com Indian Encampment dancing on Youtube.com On Saturday I went to Brewster to pick up my mother’s parents, and then we drove to Spokane for cousin Hanny’s birthday party. It was nice seeing Hanny and her kids (Jordan has really grown!) and meeting their dog Jake, who was just a […]
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The World Famous Omak Stampede and Suicide Race
Omak Stampede Rodeo Pictures on Flickr.com After SIGIR ended, I flew to Spokane, WA, where I rented a car and drove out to visit my grandparents in Omak, Washington. The Omak Stampede is a rodeo that is held every second weekend in August. In 1935, the Omak Stampede Publicity Chairman (Claire Pentz) was searching for […]
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2006-08-10 New Directions in Multilingual Information Access
David A. Evans’ invited talk: From R&D to Practice – Challenges to Multilingual Information Access in the Real World Combining Evidence from Homologous Datasets Translation Disambiguation in Web-based Translation Extraction for English-Chinese CLIR Real World Understanding for Multilingual Statistical Tables Multilingual Summarization at DUC and MSE Identification of Document Language in Hard Contexts Integrated Content […]
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2006-08-09 SIGIR Notes
Wednesday’s keynote: Information Access in the Extended Boeing Enterprise Radha Radhakrishnan Overview of Boeing’s information technology and information distribution structure. — Session VI: Clustering Document Clustering with Prior Knowledge Xiang Ji, Wei Xu, Shenhou Zhu, Yihong Gong NEC Labs America Document Clustering for summarization reference to Neto 2000? http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/laroccaneto00document.html Their application is to build a […]
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2006-08-08 SIGIR notes
Keynote: Social Networks, Incentives, and Search Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University An introduction to social networks, and some parallels to information retrieval. Via mathematical models of the web, we are looking for “Kepler’s Laws of Motion for the Web” (Mike Steuerwalt NSF KDI 1998). Looking at social networks and decentralized search. LiveJornal friendships [Liben-Nowell et al. […]
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Back in the USA, and jetlagged (or, “Sleepless in Seattle”)
I’m back in the USA for the first time since early March in 2006. I flew into Seattle from Tokyo on Saturday August 5th, 2006. The flight left at about 6pm in Tokyo on Saturday, and arrived in Seattle at about 9am on Saturday. Unfortunately I don’t usually sleep well on airplanes, and didn’t get […]
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2006-08-07 SIGIR in Seattle Notes
Keynote talk is by Keith van Rijsbergen (recipient of the Salton award, the highest SIGIR honor.) Talk entitled “Quantum Haystacks”, and is more on the fun side of things according to him. Early work has been on clustering, and went over other areas he has worked in as well. — Session I: Speech and Music […]
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Notes from Friday 2006-07-21 COLING/ACL conference
Notes from Friday’s sessions at the last day of COLING/ACL. Friday 2007-07-21 Notes from COLING/ACL Language, gender and sexuality: Do bodies always matter? Sally McConnel-Ginet Cornell University (Invited talk) Co-author of book “Language and Gender” – sounds interesting. Gave an example of John Summers (sp?) the Harvard guy and his talk about women and science. […]
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Notes from Thursday 2006-07-20 COLING/ACL conference
Rough notes from Thursday’s presentations at COLING/ACL. Exploiting Syntactic Patterns as Clues in Zero-Anaphora Resolution Ryu Iida, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto A nominee for the best asian paper award. A fairly interesting approach to anaphoric identification for “missing” zero-anaphora. I can’t really say that I know much about anaphoric resolution research, but they have a […]
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Wednesday, 2007-07-19 Part II: Seasickness, food poisoning, or a heart attack?!?
We headed back to the boat, and I think the next stop was a two hour cruise with drinks. I decided that I wasn’t too comfortable on the boat for two hours, so wouldn’t have any alcohol. After a few minutes on the boat, we hit some choppy water, and I started to feel unwell. […]
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Wednesday, 2007-07-19
At Coling, traditionally one day is reserved for an excursion to see the sites in the area. I think this is a nice idea. I’m fairly bad at planning sightseeing when I’m on my own, so it is nice to have a large group to go with. Part I: The Zoo and Manly Beach The […]
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Notes from Tuesday 2007-07-18 COLING/ACL 2006 session
2006-07-18 Invited Keynote Tuesday morning Argmax Search in Natural Language Processing Daniel Marcu The goal is to convince us that search is hard, and by not worrying about it (just throwing in an argmax without thinking about it much) we have a problem. For example with ISI’s syntax based MT system, the big problem they […]
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