Last Words on Materialism
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Last Words: On Becoming a Discipline
The title of this column, Last Words, reminds me of an occasion in 2005, when I had the privilege of attending the award ceremony for the prestigious Benjamin FranklinMedal, given annually to a few scientists who have made outstanding lifetime contributions to science. This time, a computational linguist, Aravind Joshi, was among them, so several past, present, and future presidents and officer...
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I just returned from the Association for Computational Linguistics’ 43rd Annual Meeting (ACL-2005). The acceptance rate was 18%. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? When the acceptance rate is low, precision tends to be high. The audience can judge precision for itself. If the presentations are good, everyone knows it. And if they aren’t, they know that as well. ACL-2005 had great precision. R...
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night, the series opener of HBO’s Deadwood cuts to a close-up of Seth Bullock’s hands: he dips a pen into ink with his left, switches it to his right, and puts it to page. The camera tilts up, revealing the sling on his injured right arm and resting on his face. From behind bars comes the first line of dialogue: ‘‘Is that some sort of a letter, Marshal?’’ asks the imprisoned horse thief. ‘‘Jour...
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You are reading the last issue of Computational Linguistics that will appear in printed hardcopy form. The beginning of 2009 heralds a new era for the journal in at least two major respects: As of the first issue of volume 35, Computational Linguistics will be published only electronically, and it will be open access. As editor, I’d like to take this opportunity to use these last words that wil...
متن کاملLast Words: Improving Our Reviewing Processes
Our reviewing practices today are failing.With the number of ACL submissions steadily growing over the last several years (for example, ACL 2009 had a 24% increase in submissions over ACL 2008), the need for more reviewers has become more pronounced. However, qualified reviewers are becoming hard to find, and when they are found, they are often hard-pressed for time. As a result, slipshod revie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1902
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/066029a0