We need to talk about significance tests

Posted on Do 24 Oktober 2019 in misc • Tagged with nlp

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 …


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Some tips on writing software for research

Posted on Mi 17 Juli 2019 in misc • Tagged with programming, nlp

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 …


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