Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Invited speaker: Kevin Knight

After the official opening of EACL 2006, invited speaker Kevin Knight entertained us with a very interested and well presented talk on the need to include linguistic structure in machine translation.


Not everyone is fond of the American style of presenting (I'm calling it American here because I've mainly seen Americans present like this, not that non-Americans don't present like this but I've mostly seen Americans look upon presentations as theatrical performances (or so it seems), perhaps it's because of Hollywood...). Anyway, not all the speaker's jokes are funny and everything, but it's better than a monotonically speaking person, who doesn't move his hands, doesn't walk around etc.

And instead of long boring formulae or full mathematical proofs ending in QED there was eye-candy, and eye-candy is good!

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