a long way while learning

[bubblingbeebles]

the last two weeks have been a real trip through hellfire for my feelings of fulfillment as a grad student. I'm hoping today marks the end of it.

two mondays ago I finally figured out a crisis i've been feeling about my lesser personal project, the static analysis tool (pdf). up until now-ish, all the actual programming I've done for research has

Comments

[gregh1983]

Aw, sorry about the papers :-( Reviewers sometimes say very silly things.

I'm not familiar with the conferences and workshops you're submitting to, but I believe the acceptance rate for the good conferences in my field is about 20 or 25 percent. It pretty much guarantees that rejections will be rather more common than acceptances, unless you're Super Research Person or something, which most people aren't. So I guess what I'm saying here is don't necessarily attach too much anti-your-work judgement to a "no."

Speaking as someone who's always been pretty isolated from the larger research community, I'd say attempting the collaborative project sounds like a great choice!

[lindseykuper]

Speaking as someone who's always been pretty isolated from the larger research community

You know, Alex feels isolated from the larger computational linguistics community, too. He's always felt like it was IU's fault, and to some extent, it is. But your comment, I think, gives support to the idea that Wren recently suggested that, in fact, it's a problem with computational linguistics in general, because in CL collaboration works more like it does in the humanities, where there's more single-author work, rather than large group projects with long author lists, as is common in the sciences. So, at risk of putting words in Alex's mouth, perhaps part of the reason that IU feels so much less collaborative than Georgia Tech did to him is that he didn't just switch schools, he switched fields. (The stuff he was doing before was less CL, more at the intersection of machine learning and HCI