Jan. 14th, 2012

alexr_rwx: (eleven zeppelins)
Feeling pretty good, actually :)

Except that I've been awful about not posting, again! I should get back into the habit of writing about what I'm thinking and doing.

Right! So this semester, I'm pretty excited to be done with classes. I got that totally handled today: I'm signed up for 9 hours of "do research with Mike", and that's it. I'll probably go to the machine-learning-in-computational-linguistics seminar, but I officially dropped it today, because holy cow, I don't have to take classes any more!

I've been hacking and hacking: I built a really clean version of "xT" tree transducers, and that was fun and rewarding, and it felt good to learn about them, build a working implementation, and explain it to Mike. Now I should implement the thing that learns the weights on a set of tree-transducer rules. (practical upshot: it's a formalism for turning trees into other trees, useful for translation probably)

Also work for Fil has been pretty good! Karissa, who's working with us now, can hack up a storm, and she seems really motivated to GTD. And I've been productive on that front too.

And I talked to my GRecruiter today, and it's looking promising that I'll be able to go back to GTranslate next summer! (though not set in stone, by any means)

Also, and this is the raddest thing for today: we had the first instance of Language, Learning and Libations, the new computational-linguistics-and-AI happy hour. There wasn't such a thing until now. And like 15 people showed up, and it was great! And we had dinner and talked about AI and language and math and bizarre language games, like Escher Sentences! (now I really want to generate these automatically. if I can do that, I'm quitting gradschool and doing the rap game full-time.) It looks like this is going to be a weekly thing, and I'm super-chuffed it worked out so well.

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