2005年12月7日

Research Roadmap

How to define the research roadmap? It was a big problem in front of me. I would work out the research roadmap of coreference resolution. It was my recent work.

In terms of my understanding and study, I listed all the problem domain, theory domain, approach domain, corpoa domain. But they were very simple. I will work out the second vision in detail tomorrow.

2005年12月6日

Ping Pong Club

There was a Ping Pong Club in our IRLab. Before I went to MSRA, we played often. But we did not play regularly.

This time, I would like to play ping pong with us and organize it regularly. This evening, I, with Gold, booked the Ping Pong room. Tomorrow evening we would play together. I liked play ping pong.

2005年12月5日

Discussion and presentation in IRLab

This morning, under my plan, I had a discussion with Zhenghua. His work was under my original research plan. But with some sudden problems, his work had not finished on time. After his introduction, I knew there were three features had not been realized. And his whole system was running on VS.NET 2003. Finally, we listed all the action items and deadline. This week our research on coreference resolution was preparing for the whole work in this month.

On the global plan of our lab, I should present this afternoon. At two o'clock, we had the dual-weekly meeting. I introduced all the works and life I had experienced in MSRA. Many members asked some questions. I like the questions. It was the nice feedback to me.

After the whole meeting, we had the weekly reading group discussion. Zhichang Zhang gave the talk this time. He introduced one of the papers in SIGIR 2005. It was about passage retrieval for QA. The basic idea was using some sentence dependency relation and the path information for more features with ME. The evaluation was on TREC. I believed it was a nice way. We had used some dependency information for some NLP research. But we used only the node with only one arc. We could use more arcs and more features for research.

New meetings, new feeling. I like our IRLab very much!

2005年12月4日

New planning

How to do new plan? I need to think more about it. I had broken away research half a year. To a research, it was very dangerous. There are many things I should finish. I listed all of them on a piece of paper and categorized them into three parts: research, study and life. They are just like my blog name: bill_lang's study and life.

My current works in this week is just planning. It is just like choice which is the most difficult thing in one's whole life. With many nice tools and approaches, I believe I can manage it very well.

2005年12月3日

Snowing

Just now, out of the windows, there was snowing. It was a little snow. After several hours, I saw there was a thick layer of snow on the ground. It was a nice feeling when you walking on it. It was just like some sand.

When I saw through the window, I found there was a white world around our school. It was very beautiful. It was saying that a snow year, a rich year. I believed it was a snow season, a rich season.

I liked such scene and feeling. Do you like it?

2005年12月2日

New all

Dec. 2 is the first formal day I re-worked in IRLab. There was a new machine and monitor assigned to me. I formatted the machine and installed all the software. It was fresh to me. As my IP was a new one, there were many problems when I visited the servers. Victor and Gc helped me a lot. Thanks to them.

After installing a new operating system, I could do many things. I cleared up all the materials and install many common softwares. I thought in this weekend I should prepare all pre-requirement environments. Then I can do my works in the next week.

2005年12月1日

美丽的哈尔滨,我回来了

哈尔滨很冷了现在,金山师兄昨天告诉我。早上5点二十分,火车终于停下来了。冲出车站的那一刻,我感觉很像2000年9月6号那天第一次来到哈尔滨,又向去年过完年一人回到哈尔滨一样,整个儿心里是一种无尽的喜悦。是呀,半年前离开哈尔滨的时候也是有点凉意的,现在的哈尔滨已经很冷了,凌晨五点多非常寒冷,大约有零下20度吧。好在很快就回到了寝室。

早上补了两个小时的早觉后我来到了既亲切无比又有点点生疏的综合楼,进入实验室的时候我敲了敲门,老师们都在这里辛勤的工作着。看到老师们以及实验室的师兄师姐师弟师妹们,我真的感觉像是回到了家。哈尔滨看来真的成为了我的第二故乡了。

回到实验室的感觉真好,我原先的位置已经给了正华,现在只有一个位置了,安装了显示器和机器后开始了实验室的学习生活。这台机器的主板好像出了些问题,还好实验室机器大官家金山师兄很快找来专人帮我换了一块。

晚上六点左右我终于见到了亚杰。她今天也很累的,刚上完课就往这边赶过来了。晚上非常高兴的和亚杰共进晚餐了。晚上亚杰看到了我在北京所有的照片,也见到了我们实验室很多的同学们,一时之间她也感觉有点记不过来了。呵呵,以后一定会经常见到的。