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MSFTResearch Freaks, Geeks and Microsoft nyti.ms/L5h0iS 11:25 AM Jun 1st via Tweet Button Retweeted by chris_brockett and 9 others
Jason Baldridge blogs on his demo Gibbs sampler: bcomposes.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/gib… 10:28 PM May 30th via web
fssnip F# Snippet: Simple Markov chains fssnip.net/ch #fsharp 4:24 PM May 27th via dlvr.it Retweeted by chris_brockett and 2 others
al3xandru Impressive: Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple & Fast (but is slow in Java,Perl,PHP,Python,Ruby) j.mp/KVb1c4 ht @mariofusco 2:38 AM May 27th via Tweetbot for iOS Retweeted by chris_brockett and 13 others
dalelane written about what it was like to do one of the free online Stanford courses - now that I've finished @nlp_class dalelane.co.uk/blog/ 2:30 PM May 25th via web Retweeted by chris_brockett and 4 others
mbeisen can 8,000 more people please sign public access petition wh.gov/6TH so we can move on to fighting for real #openaccess? 11:47 AM May 25th via web Retweeted by chris_brockett and 26 others
wsdot If you missed it, we captured the Ship Canal Bridge Falcon banding live tweets: bit.ly/KySZyP 10:42 AM May 25th via web Retweeted by chris_brockett and 8 others
msraurjp マイクロソフト・リサーチ・アジア - 話した会話をその場で英語に翻訳する技術などを公開 -INTERNET Watch internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/special/2… via @internet_watch 7:21 PM May 24th via Tweet Button Retweeted by chris_brockett and 5 others
msraurjp ニュース - マイクロソフトリサーチ、日本をはじめとするアジア地域での産学連携を推進：ITpro nkbp.jp/JqaXok #itprojp 7:20 PM May 24th via Tweet Button Retweeted by chris_brockett and 6 others
lousylinguist Whoa! ATTN NLPers, stumbled onto this one "Exact String Matching Algorithms" bit.ly/6N2ek 5:31 PM May 19th via web Retweeted by chris_brockett and 2 others
jasonbaldridge #nlproc postdoc job opening at Illinois Inst of Technology working on multilingual metaphor with @ShlomoArgamon bit.ly/FOaYyq 9:48 AM May 19th via TweetDeck Retweeted by chris_brockett
@kitlovesfsharp Of course, if you're working with #FSharp, you could always use MSR's Matlab-like Sho library: research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects… 10:18 AM May 11th via web in reply to kitlovesfsharp
@kitlovesfsharp I'm using Octave in Prof Ng's ML course on Coursera. I kind of like it (both the course and Octave) 10:16 AM May 11th via web in reply to kitlovesfsharp
@kitlovesfsharp Octave is free, and reportedly pretty consistent with MatLab so should be an easy transfer later. 10:14 AM May 11th via web in reply to kitlovesfsharp
Congrats! RT @ccb I just accepted a tenure-track job offer from the Computer and Information Sciences Dept at the University of Pennsylvania 1:57 PM May 9th via web
English-to-English statistical machine translation for hackers! The Microsoft Translator Paraphrase API is now public: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/… 3:56 PM May 8th via web
The Microsoft Translator Paraphrase API works best on short phrases of 3-8 words. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/… 2:04 PM May 8th via web
The Microsoft Translator Paraphrase API is now public. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/…. Samples on the Contextual Thesaurus page: labs.microsofttranslator.com/thesaurus/ 2:03 PM May 8th via web
jteevan @chifilter Problem 3: Confusion between effect size and p-value. #CHI2012 A low p-value doesn't mean the effect is particularly important. 10:26 AM May 8th via Twitter for Windows Phone Retweeted by chris_brockett
jteevan @chifilter Problem 2: A lack of power. #CHI2012 Not seeing a difference doesn't mean anything. 10:24 AM May 8th via Twitter for Windows Phone Retweeted by chris_brockett

Name Chris Brockett
Location Redmond, WA
Web http://research.m...
Bio Software engineer at Microsoft Research & erstwhile linguist. FSharpist. Volcanologist manqué. Language, computation, and cognition. Opinions are my own.