Since I started blogging almost a year and a half ago, I have been following many blogs. I managed to find some blogs dealing with computational linguistics and natural language processing, but they were few and far between. Since then, I’ve discovered quite a few NLP people that have entered the blagoblag. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the many that I follow.
Many of these bloggers post sporadically and even then only post about CL/NLP occasionally. I’ve tried to organize the list into those who post exclusively on CL/NLP (at least as far as I have followed them) and those who post sporadically on CL/NLP. I would fall into the latter, since I frequently blog about my dogs, regular computer science-y and programming stuff, and other rants. P.S. I group Information Retrieval in with CL/NLP here, but only the blogs I actually read. I’m sure there’s a bazillion I don’t.
If I’ve missed one+, please let me know. I’m always on the lookout. Ditto if you think I’ve miscategorized someone. I’ve excluded a few that haven’t posted in a while.
- Almost always containing Computational Linguistics/NLP
- Computational Linguistics (Ali Reza Ebadat)
- Information Retrieval on the Live Web (Paul Ogilvie)
- natural language processing blog (Hal Daume)
- thought process Ken Reisman’s blog is very new, but so far, just CL/NLP stuff.
- Often containing Computational Linguistics/NLP
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- AndyHickl.com (Andy Hickl)
- Apperceptual (Peter Turney)
- Automatic Mind (Niels Ott)
- Hacklog: Blogamundo (Patrick Hall)
- Information Engineering (Dragomir Radev)
- Language Wrong (Roddy Lindsay)
- LingPipe (Bob Carpenter)
- Manos Tsagkias
- Misc Research Stuff (Delip Rao)
- Natural Language Processing (Nisha)
- The Noisy Channel (Daniel Tunkelang)
- Outer Thoughts (Alexandre Rafalovitch)
- Ramifications of a Linguist’s Life
- Science for SEO
- streamhacker.com
- Occasionally containing Computational Linguistics/NLP
- Amy Iris
- Attempted Axiomatisation (David Petar Novakovic) Though @dpn hasn’t posted much lately. Consider this a poke. :)
- David R. MacIver
- Earning My Turns (Fernando Pereira)
- Jeff’s Search Engine Caffe (Jeff Dalton)
- The Lousy Linguist
- Matthew L. Jockers
- Nathan Sanders : Journal
- Nerd Industries: Stuart Robinson’s blog
- NLPadLog
- Research Log
- Surprise and Coincidence – musings from the long tail (Ted Dunning)
- Synthèse (Andre Vellino)
- Text and Artificial Intelligence (Shahzad Khan)
- window office (Jon Elsas)
- अनिल एकलव्य (Anil Eklayva)
- Corporations and Institutions working with CL/NLP
- Evri
- hakia
- The JamiQ Report
- LarKC (Large Knowledge Collider)
- LexaBlog (Lexalytics)
- Office Natural Language Team Blog (Microsoft)
- OpenCalais
- Powerset (defunct?)
- Semantic Hacker (textwise)
- Text Technologies (Monash Research)
- w3lab – the science of searching
Boy, if I am considered a frequent blogger on NLP/CL, we really are infrequent writers!
Just for the record, it is possible to subscribe to just one category of my blog, so subscribing to http://blog.outerthoughts.com/category/computational-linguistics/feed/ will weed out all the non-relevant posts.
Also, please consider adding the list to the ACL WIKI: http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=Blogs
Terminology fail on my part. I meant as a proportion of your total posts. When you post, you usually post something CL-related. Of course, you’ve gone months without posting anything.. You have been relatively prolific this year, though. :)
Thanks for this post. Now a have to feed my feedreader. And thanks for the link. By the way, I guess my blog is called “Niels Ott – CL Blog” for now, which isn’t very fancy. I should give it another name some when.
While I’ve no problem being linked here I think it’s probably a bit of a stretch to say I even occasionally blog about computational linguistics / NLP. :-) I do work in it, and I’d like to write more about it, but so far this fact is very very under-represented on my blog.
That said, thanks for the great list!
Well, David, consider this encouragement to write more about it then! :)
Niels, I updated your title above. I also updated the link to go to your blog rather than to your main page.
Maybe I’ll do just that. :-)
There are some difficulties to my doing so, but I’ll try to figure them out.
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Awesome list! You may want to take a quick look-see over at Language Log to see the recent spate of postings about “jobs in linguistics” which you are now officially well-qualified to comment on.
Also, Powerset is NOT defunct! They’ve simply been absorbed by the great goo of Microsoft. Rumor has it, MS paid $100 million for them. That’s a modest sum – ahem – if you consider that average VC funded CL companies have $30-$50 million invested. That’s maybe 2-1 for their money (VC guys are usually looking for at least 10-1 because so many of their ventures fail).
Sorry, I meant Powerset’s blog, not their company. They don’t seem to have posted since the news.
And I agree with your comment over on language log: I’m sure the vast majority of dissertations in NLP/CL are being missed because they simply aren’t being classified as linguistics but as CS.
The job postings for CL keep coming. I see new ones every day in my dice alerts, which I have turned off twice but since they refuse to obey I gave up. So actually, that number might not be so skewed. I doubt there have been as many CL dissertations produced in the last few months as there have been jobs I’ve seen listed.
Jason, this is a great list and you’ve done a fine public service here! I tweeted it at http://twitter.com/kasrthomas.
Hi Jason, thanks for including us in the list. At JamiQ, we use a combination of dependency grammar, fixed grammar rules and wordnet ontology to derive sentiments. We also investigate into existing social networks and a variety of web metrics to determine influence of people.
We are very research intensive. As such, if you are interested in doing a project together (whether for or non profit), we welcome your proposals. We are happy to dedicate resources to interesting projects. A half-page description will more than suffice.
Jason, if we find something new, we will leave a comment here. Thank you for putting this list together!
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Hey, how about streamhacker.com? I think I’d put myself in the “often” category.
Thanks
added (and subscribed), thanks for letting me know. i think i actually linked to you in a stackoverflow answer the other day
Yep, I saw that answer and it led me here, and now I have to go thru all your links :)