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John Blitzer

Postdoctoral Fellow
Computer Science Department
University of California, Berkeley

Email: blitzer@cs.berkeley.edu
My curriculum vitae

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I'm applying for academic jobs. My application materials are here.

ACL 2010 Workshop on Domain Adaptation
I am giving an invited talk at the ACL 2010 Workshop on Domain Adaptation. Please consider submitting your domain adaptation work.

Berkeley Supervised Word Aligner
We released the code for our supervised ITG aligner. The aligner itself is described in this publication from ACL 2009.

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2009

  • Learning Better Monolingual Models from Bilingual Data
    Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing.
    [pdf] [pptx]


2008

  • Adapting Natural Language Processing Systems to New Domains
    Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago.     Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing.
    [pdf] [pptx]
  • Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning
    Google, Beijing.     Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing.
    [pdf] [pptx]
  • Supervised Learning with Linear Models
    Short course at the Harbin Institute of Technology and MSRA joint summer school on NLP, Harbin, Heilongjiang.
    [pdf] [pptx]
  • Semi-supervised Learning for Natural Language Processing
    ACL 2008 Tutorial, Columbus, OH.
    [pdf] [pptx]
  • ѧ¶øÊ±Ï°Ö®: Being a successful graduate student
    Given to top undergrads from around China as part of the MSRA young fellows program, Beijing.
    [pdf] [pptx]


2007

  • Domain Adapation with Structural Correspondence Learning.
    Different from 2008 talk. Includes theoretical results but focuses less on NLP.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.     Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.
    [pdf] [pptx]
  • Domain Adaptation with Structural Correspondence Learning
    Same as 2008 talk.
    Google Mountain View, CA.     Yahoo! Santa Clara, CA.     U.C. Berkeley Berkeley, CA.     Johns Hopkins Center for Speech and Language Processing, Baltimore, MD.
    [pdf] [pptx]