my biased thoughts on the fields of natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL) and related topics (machine learning, math, funding, etc.) I feel a bit odd doing my "what I liked at NAACL 2013" as one of the program chairs, but not odd enough to skip what seems to be the most popular type of post :). First, though, since Katrin Kirchhoff (my co-chair) and I never got a chance