Reproducibility in Computational Linguistics: Are We Willing to Share?

How Much Are We Willing

Although Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes in program design using a simple parametric method based on a simultaneous probability model of school attendance and child labor. The paper also provides alternative non parametri...

Are we willing to build a better future?

Are we willing to fight for our research?

In June of 1989 The Johns Hopkins Medical School celebrated its hun­ dredth anniversary. In the half-dozen speeches at the opening ceremonies, given by major figures at Hopkins, plus the Secretary of Health, the Postmaster General, and the chief executive officer of one of the country's leading pharmaceutical houses, all the important problems confront­ ing modern medicine were addressed, from ...

Why People Are (Un)willing to Share Information with Online Advertisers

Online advertisers track Internet users’ activities to deliver relevant ads. To study how different online advertisers’ data practices affect users’ comfort with sharing their information, we conducted a 1,882-participant between-subjects online study. We asked participants about their comfort with sharing commonly collected types of information in scenarios with varying data practices, and stu...

Linguistics in Computational Linguistics: Observations and Predictions

As my title suggests, this position paper focuses on the relevance of linguistics in NLP instead of asking the inverse question. Although the question about the role of computational linguistics in the study of language may theoretically be much more interesting than the selected topic, I feel that my choice is more appropriate for the purpose and context of this workshop. This position paper s...