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NWR Paper Nominated for Best Paper at ACL

The paper “Offspring from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us” which was co-authored by NewsReader team members Antske Fokkens, Marieke van Erp and Piek Vossen was runner up for the best paper award at ACL 2013 last week. In the paper, difficulties in reproducibility of prior research tools and experiments are addressed. Many researchers have come across cases where they had wanted to reuse an approach described in a research paper but found out that it was very difficult…

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Offspring from Reproduction Problems (invitation to discussion and announcement ACL presentation)

Despite clear methodological descriptions and making our code and data available, it is still difficult to make our research reproducible. We would like to invite the NLP community to join a discussion on reproducing results from NLP research. One of the main questions we want to address is how we can get a better understanding of our methods through systematic research. Please visit our website: http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/reproducingnlpresearch/ to join our discussion group or share your experiences and ideas. …or come and talk to…

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Antske Fokkens to present at Annual Network Institute Event

Antske Fokkens will present at the Annual Network Institute Event on July 4. During this event, the different groups working together in the interdisciplinary Network Institute at VU University will come together to exchange their research ideas and results. Antske will describe her attempts at reproducing some research published by others in her field, using the original data. And guess how easy that was…  

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