<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear fellow NLPers,</span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm taking some notes on how much time people spend to preprocess texts during your NLP experiments.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Can you help me to answer a few simple questions? </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">First choose an NLP experiment you've completed that requires you to preprocess text.</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Then answer the following questions:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Task:</b></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b>Tools:</b></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Dataset:</b></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b>Time to learn how to use the dataset</b> (just guestimate (guess-estimate)): </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Time taken to produce preprocessed data</b> (e.g. changing from one format to another, POS tagging, parsing text to trees):</div>
<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Time spent to produce your model for your experiment</b> (also just guestimate):</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks for helping me to answer the questions above. If you've experience with more than 1 experiment, please feel free to answer the questions again for each question =)</div>
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Thank you and best regards,</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Liling Tan</div><div><br></div></div>