NIPS stuff...my biased thoughts on the fields of natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL) and related topics (machine learning, math, funding, etc.) NIPS is over as of last night. Overall I thought the program was strong (though I think someone, somewhere, is trying to convince me I need to do deep learning -- or at least that was the topic d'jour... or I guess d'an? this time). I wa
