Welcome to our blog! Let's start with answering some questions that might be on the top of your head. Who? Danish is pursuing his PhD in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Carnegie Mellon University and Mansi is a Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter. (Sorry, I can't verify your profile). We recently got married and live …
University Rankings for PhD Applications
This is the application season—many applicants are polishing their essays, personalizing them for individual schools, reminding their letter-writers to avoid the (inevitable?) delay in their submissions, etc. Across multiple discussions, we have noticed that many aspirants are hesitant to apply broadly, and would restrict their Ph.D. applications to “top-4” or “top-10” schools in the world. …
Ethics discussion in ACL 2020
A 2016 survey on ethics in NLP [1] noted that 44.5% of NLP researchers do not find themselves responsible for the potential usages of the tools they create. How do differences, between the researchers who hold themselves responsible and those who do not, manifest in tangible terms? Possibly, one of the differences might be the …
Latent Factors 