a lot of good can be done, not by accepting unqualified people, but by explicitly reaching out to recruit especially qualified people. especially underrepresented especially qualified people, if workplace/university diversity does bring the great things that people claim (and I think it does).
I went to MIT over a few other top schools because they really sold themselves to me in the recruiting process. I don't work for Google because they turned me off.
Well that's a valid point. I agree. Diversity does bring a lot of benefits. OK, maybe I will forgive Google people for their discriminative behavior after all. :D Google is especially attractive to me because my field of research needs *data*, and you can find unimaginably large amount of it in there!
We're on the same boat then :) And yes we are working on English/Chinese now and we have reached the same conclusion. I mean THEY have reached this conclusion, since I have just joined them :D
I went to MIT over a few other top schools because they really sold themselves to me in the recruiting process. I don't work for Google because they turned me off.
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OK, maybe I will forgive Google people for their discriminative behavior after all. :D
Google is especially attractive to me because my field of research needs *data*, and you can find unimaginably large amount of it in there!
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Google does have lots of data.
I'm working on English<->Iraqi MT research right now and our data are pretty sparse.
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What's your approach to MT then? Are you more an SMT or a Rule based MT girl?
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but I think our current approach to SMT will asymptote to a point where we won't get gains unless we incorporate more linguistic knowledge.
whether this knowledge is input by humans or learned via machine learning techniques is another story.
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And yes we are working on English/Chinese now and we have reached the same conclusion. I mean THEY have reached this conclusion, since I have just joined them :D
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