Esther SeyffarthYou’re attending an international conference in a tech-adjacent field.In July 2020, I attended one of the largest international conferences in my professional field, the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association…Jul 10, 2020Jul 10, 2020
Esther SeyffarthHow do you recognize a bad translation? Just see if calling it “garbage” feels rightYesterday I attended a lecture by Douglas Hofstadter, hosted by the university of Cologne as part of their Albertus-Magnus-Professur…Jun 19, 2018Jun 19, 2018
Esther SeyffarthNotes from #NAACL2018 in New Orleans: Neural Networks and Networking NerdsI’ve spent the past week attending NAACL 2018, the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for…Jun 8, 2018Jun 8, 2018
Esther SeyffarthMy impressions from the 2018 Edition of LREC in Miyazaki, JapanDo you remember the first academic conference you ever attended? Mine was LREC 2018, the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference that…May 12, 2018May 12, 2018
Esther SeyffarthNLP for bots, and bots for NLPThis post is a transcript of a talk I gave at an Open Source and Natural Language Processing workshop in Cambridge on November 10, 2016. My…Nov 1, 2016Nov 1, 2016
Esther SeyffarthSummer School: Even better than regular school! My experiences at ESSLLI 2016Sometimes you’re fortunate enough to experience an event that inspires you in many ways at once, and that’s exactly what happened to me…Aug 28, 2016Aug 28, 2016
Esther SeyffarthPaying for the privilege of contributingThis year, I attended the BotSummit in London after the organizer, Darius Kazemi, had asked me to give a talk there. It was such an…Jul 13, 20161Jul 13, 20161
Esther SeyffarthReading a book on my balcony, automaticallyWhen I was small, I was the sort of kid who read the dictionary. It probably had a lot to do with wanting to appear smart, but I also did…May 30, 20161May 30, 20161
