Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 25 years
It's just amazing how DL made most work completely irrelevant.Stuff before 2010 in natural language processing is ridiculous. Dynamic programming algorithms, beam search, dependency parsing (grammar) algorithms (going from O(n^3) to O(n) with cost-sensitive algorithms), a huge focus on lexical analysis, part-of-speech, graphical models (maximum entropy, conditional random fields, etc.).Today all of these algorithms are completely irrelevant. No one needs part-of-speech anymore, or dependency (grammar) trees, or cost-sensitive reinforcement learning reductions.I remember being so inspired by all of the work and learned a lot, but it's quite funny how Lindy works.