On the way to Brewer's Art

Never mind how we got to this topic:

me: Parsing is for fogies.

Markus: What?

Jason: I think he means crusty old linguists.

Markus: You should probably use a shallow parser.

me: I'm shallower than that; I use n-grams.

Funny bone

The frequentist exclaimed, "All your Bayes are belong to us!" to which the Bayesian responded, "Well, it depends."

NLP and Global Warming

Those of us who were at EMNLP-CONLL 2007 remember the "NLP and Global Warming" exchange between James Clarke, Jason Eisner, and Dan Bikel at the Q/A session of the Clarke and Lapata paper. The transcript of this funny conversation is now online, thanks to Jason.

I really liked Hal's ending remark.