This has been on my phone(!) far too long, so I might as well post it.

Before talking about why I left academia and how I feel about the transition, let me first talk about how I entered & worked in academia.

University was the first time I felt like I …

Lucia and I hold a scientific writing workshop for students. No credits, four days split into two blocks. These are (some of) the notes, mainly about LaTeX. This document is incomplete and subject to updates. We also uploaded the slides to the workshop.

Wikibooks has an excellent book on LaTeX …

At ACL 2019, We Need to Talk about Standard Splits by Kyle Gorman and Steven Bedrick was gilded as one of five outstanding papers. The authors perform a replication study on PoS taggers to evaluate whether the reported accuracies can be reproduced and whether those accuracies hinge on using the …

These are my notes for a presentation in our group at Saarland University. The presentation was mainly about software written as part of experiments in NLP, but most of the tips do not focus on NLP but rather on writing code for reproducible experiments that involve processing data sets. This …

I was asked why we use XML instead of json for the Spoken Wikipedia Corpora:

Hey, could you elaborate more about xml != json ? What's missing? xml ids (like for crossing branches in TBs) ?

— Djamé (@zehavoc) 29. November 2017

As mentioned, we actually started with json. The first version of …

Today I'm releasing the GamersGlobal comment corpus. GamersGlobal is a German computer gaming site (and my favorite one!) with a fairly active comment section below each article. This corpus contains all comments by the 20 most active users up to November 2016.

I use this corpus for teaching, mainly author …

Part of my job at the university is teaching and that entails correcting assignments. In the old days, I would receive the assignments by email, print them, write comments in the margins, give points for the assignments and hand them back. This approach has two downsides:

• assignments are done by …

Timo and I held a course on incremental processing at ESSLLI 2016. If you have a look at (most of) our publications, you will see that Timo works on incremental speech processing and I on incremental Text processing. The course was about incremental NLP in general and I hope we …

We recently went for a ride at the very nice Alsterquellgebiet just north of Hamburg. We had a camera mounted and from time to time, I shot a short video.

Back home I wanted to visualize where we were for each video to make a short clip using kdenlive. The …

My paper about the correlation between syneval and parsing performance has been accepted at RepEval 2016. You can find code, data etc. here. Looking forward to Berlin (which is a 1:30h train ride from Hamburg).