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SUMMARY:Frustratingly easy domain adaptation - Lin Sun (Computer Laborator
 y)
DTSTART:20090112T123000Z
DTEND:20090112T133000Z
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CONTACT:Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
DESCRIPTION:At this session of the NLIP Reading Group we'll be discussing 
 the following paper:\n\nHal Daumé III. 2007. "Frustratingly easy domain a
 daptation":http://hal3.name/docs/daume07easyadapt.pdf. In Proceedings of t
 he 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (AC
 L-07).\n\n*Abstract:*\nWe describe an approach to domain adaptation that i
 s appropriate exactly in the case when one has enough "target" data to do 
 slightly better than just using only "source" data.  Our approach is incre
 dibly simple\, easy to implement as a preprocessing step (10 lines of Perl
 !) and outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on a range of datasets.  Th
 e technique comes with several simple theoretical guarantees.  Moreover\, 
 it is trivially extended to a multi-domain adaptation problem\, where one 
 has data from a variety of different domains. 
LOCATION:GS15\, Computer Laboratory
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