[Corpora-List] [final call] Which modeling steps are most important / difficult?

[Munson, Miles Arthur]

Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey below.

I will close the survey January 10.  If you plan to fill out the survey but have not made time yet, you still have a few days.

Sincerely,
Art Munson


On Oct 8, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Munson, Miles Arthur wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Modeling tools drawn from statistics, machine learning, and data mining are widely used by the natural language processing community.  Even when a standard modeling algorithm can be used as a black box, many additional steps can be necessary to make use of the black box and understand the results.
> 
> I am interested in how much time is spent per modeling step in developing real systems and the community's opinion of the importance of the various steps.
> 
> To study this question I am conducting a short survey (5-10 minutes) of the community's experience with developing real systems.  The survey can be found at
> 
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/39YCVRX
> 
> I plan to do a differential analysis of the responses from the general machine learning community vs other communities (e.g., NLP) if there are enough responses.
> 
> Thank you in advance to anyone who can spare a few minutes to take the survey.  
> 
> Sincerely,
> Art Munson



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