ICML/COLT/UAI 2009 retrospectivemy biased thoughts on the fields of natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL) and related topics (machine learning, math, funding, etc.) This will probably be a bit briefer than my corresponding NAACL post because even by day two of ICML, I was a bit burnt out; I was also constantly swapping in other tasks (grants, etc.). Note that John has already posted his list of papers
