CS/NLP hoaxes

[trochee]

a bunch of MIT smartypants go and pull the wool over the eyes of a fairly dumb conference (seriously -- go look for the word "metaphor" on their web page).

See their software and the whole story from the grad students' point of view.

Comments

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Yeah dude. These kids are my boyfriends in past lives. totally. ahem. well... uh.. you know what I mean ( *i didn't mean to get this excited *)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

I think you may have to fill me in on that in person.

[mythalethe.livejournal.com]

Nice! Saw that on Slashdot... Maybe this will stimulate a quality improvement initiative in academia.

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

Yay for MIT smartypants. THey rule. Dude, did I mention I'm gonna bake cookies for chomsky?

[isolt.livejournal.com]

The sheer number of silly stunts pulled by MIT grad students almost makes me want to go there for the fun.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dkg_/]

i actually really liked this NYU professor's submission to the same conference. Genius!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

hee hee.

I like that one too. I wonder if *it* got accepted.