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Tried to read a little bit more of Manning + Schutze, but I kept falling asleep, which as you know, is what I do when I don't understand. This is a bit discouraging. We're only at the mathematical background part, and not the actual meat.talk
Listened to a very nice talk by Carlos Gómez Rodríguez, fitting a bunch of dependency parsing algorithms into this parsing schemata framework (what's the difference between that and the parsing-as-deduction stuff? it looks superficially the same at least...). Very clear, in my naive opinion, but probably because I'm being too superficial to notice any potential problems. The talk really worked for me because (a) i'm naturally inclined to like this stuff [let's grab all this shit and talk about it in a clean, uniform manner] and (b) the explanations were implicitly visual and lego-like. You saw what bits fit into what fits. Also gave me a nice slide on constituency parsing vs dependency parsing which would have made me really really happy at ACL 2006 when I was like "huh? what's this thing everybody's talking about?". Oh well.Ok. Better behaved tomorrow. I have a clearer idea what I'm supposed to do.
