3 days since my last post and much has happened.
1. I got a message on the 28th that 3 research papers I co-authored (2 of them were my own and 1 had my contribution) were accepted in the ICON conference. ICON is short for International Conference On NLP (Natural Language Processing). Although named International this conference is famous for Indian Languages NLP. It does accept works on Indian Languages but the theme of the conference is "how to make do when resources are scarce". There is a decent emphasis on linguistics. That being said this is a rather medium level conference and I was more or less certain of my papers getting accepted since I had already had experiences in submitting to the top level (Rank 1 and 2) conferences in the past. I won't act all smug and to be honest I am sort of proud (after many people told me that I should be) that I managed to get 3 papers accepted in one go.
2. The very next day I received my scholarship money from the Japanese Government Scholarship Programme called MEXT or Monbukagakusho (see here for more details: MEXT Scholarship. It might be totally useful if you want to study in Japan's top Universities..... I am in Kyodai, by the way). Can you believe that they are giving me 146000 yen (or 83000 INR or 1460 $) per month? If you ask me, that's a buttload (Yes, I will use profanities) of money. In India IIT Bombay used to give me like 11000 INR per month this is roughly 7-8 times that. I will manage to save up to 20% of this scholarship and the resultant will be used for some awesome times. I sure am pleased with this development.
3. Having been on a Research Paper reading spree (one per day atleast) ideas (good and bad both) have been spewing out from my mind like crazy. I have been working on intermediate languages for machine translation but the main problem is the removal of useless phrases. So I got to know that my senior in the lab has made use of cognates equivalence between languages which will fit well in my problems framework. For now it is as good a start as any.
4. I realized that I am a drug addict. In fact most of us have been addicted to drugs which our parents have been giving us for all our lives since we were children. It is not their fault since they have been doing the same. And recently I had to give up regular consumption of this drug which lead to lethargic episodes followed by slight depression. It was then that I realized that I have an addiction problem. This drug is even more powerful than cocaine and LSD and crystal meth but it does not known physical harm. So before your brain starts thinking odd things the drug I am talking about is tannin (caffeine for many others and sometimes for myself). I have been consuming tea for all my life. It is not that I have to but I need to consume tea to be optimal. Else I get sluggish and sort of depressive. I think I am slowly being weaned but it is going to be tough to get rid of 25 years of ritual addiction. It was not the cloudy and rainy days that used to make me feel low but the lack of tea (and effectively tannin) that did so. Anyways that's all for now.
More stuff coming up.... stay tuned.
1. I got a message on the 28th that 3 research papers I co-authored (2 of them were my own and 1 had my contribution) were accepted in the ICON conference. ICON is short for International Conference On NLP (Natural Language Processing). Although named International this conference is famous for Indian Languages NLP. It does accept works on Indian Languages but the theme of the conference is "how to make do when resources are scarce". There is a decent emphasis on linguistics. That being said this is a rather medium level conference and I was more or less certain of my papers getting accepted since I had already had experiences in submitting to the top level (Rank 1 and 2) conferences in the past. I won't act all smug and to be honest I am sort of proud (after many people told me that I should be) that I managed to get 3 papers accepted in one go.
2. The very next day I received my scholarship money from the Japanese Government Scholarship Programme called MEXT or Monbukagakusho (see here for more details: MEXT Scholarship. It might be totally useful if you want to study in Japan's top Universities..... I am in Kyodai, by the way). Can you believe that they are giving me 146000 yen (or 83000 INR or 1460 $) per month? If you ask me, that's a buttload (Yes, I will use profanities) of money. In India IIT Bombay used to give me like 11000 INR per month this is roughly 7-8 times that. I will manage to save up to 20% of this scholarship and the resultant will be used for some awesome times. I sure am pleased with this development.
3. Having been on a Research Paper reading spree (one per day atleast) ideas (good and bad both) have been spewing out from my mind like crazy. I have been working on intermediate languages for machine translation but the main problem is the removal of useless phrases. So I got to know that my senior in the lab has made use of cognates equivalence between languages which will fit well in my problems framework. For now it is as good a start as any.
4. I realized that I am a drug addict. In fact most of us have been addicted to drugs which our parents have been giving us for all our lives since we were children. It is not their fault since they have been doing the same. And recently I had to give up regular consumption of this drug which lead to lethargic episodes followed by slight depression. It was then that I realized that I have an addiction problem. This drug is even more powerful than cocaine and LSD and crystal meth but it does not known physical harm. So before your brain starts thinking odd things the drug I am talking about is tannin (caffeine for many others and sometimes for myself). I have been consuming tea for all my life. It is not that I have to but I need to consume tea to be optimal. Else I get sluggish and sort of depressive. I think I am slowly being weaned but it is going to be tough to get rid of 25 years of ritual addiction. It was not the cloudy and rainy days that used to make me feel low but the lack of tea (and effectively tannin) that did so. Anyways that's all for now.
More stuff coming up.... stay tuned.
My name is Diptesh, and I am a Tea addict. :(
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