Conversation with Prof Barzilay:
current work:
- football - generating game overviews from play data
- lectures - automatically generating outlines from the lecture text
- medical text - reconstructing the order of events in time
differences between schools:
columbia
- larger nlp group than cornell
- focus on system development (rather than research)
- lacking in linguistics connections
cornell
- variety of projects; can work on different ones
- linguistics & cog sci conections
mit
- very very large (9 floors), variety of research
- don't know everyone (by any means)
- but can find the best person doing some specialized thing
- every day like 5 different talks, vs. 1 a week at cornell
- linguistics & cog sci conections