Machine Translation Weekly 59: Notes from EMNLP 2020
Another large NLP conference that must have taken place in a virtual
environment, EMNLP 2020, is over, and here are my
notes from the conference. The ACL in the summer that had most Q&A sessions on
Zoom, which meant most of the authors waiting forever if someone takes the
courage to enter the room. EMNLP sort of simulated the standard conference
format that hopefully reduced the communication barrier. There were public Q&A
sessions with short presentations and poster sessions in a tool called
Gather.town – a virtual environment with the look and
feel of a 90’s video game. As an avatar, you can have walked from a poster to
poster and talk to people. It seemed quite weird at the beginning, but looking
back, I must admit I