The Berkeley NLP Group

Comics

We're pretty big fans of Dinosaur Comics, a hilarious webcomic that occasionally features NLP. Dinosaur Comics is a constrained comic in which the image is fixed and only the dialogue changes, so it's easy to make your own! With permission from the author, we have decided to make a few of our own about NLP.

N-Gram Language Modeling

Word to the wise: you might not want to try the "Down low/Too slow" trick on Superman.

Maximum Margin Classification

And "kernelizing" doesn’t mean adding popcorn to the muffins? But the salty-sweet combination is so delicious!

Unsupervised Learning

Seriously, we train our models with something called "Expectation Maximization." Why do we place so many expectations on our poor data?

Variational Inference

Variational Batman would put a lot of birthday clowns in the hospital. Talk about your gritty reboots!

Sometimes we just do memes.