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I have just completed my honors thesis, mainly NLP/ machine learning related. While a paper may eventuate from that, although I feel it's a little unfocused to fit into the size of most published papers. I don't intend on doing any postgrad, going to be mainly working on a startup/ freelancing at this stage. I wouldn't mind though looking into trying to get something published, just out of interest in the area more than anything. Just wondering if that is possible/ harder without the university affiliation? Probably most likely in things like NER, paraphrasing, clustering, news article/ Tweet cluster summarization. |
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Most conferences are reviewed double-blind, so you can get published regardless of your affiliation. That said, given that you were taught at a Uni (college) and you probably had a supervisor, that supervisor would probably benefit from having another paper published and should be willing to help you publish. If not, publish yourself, get into a conference and present it, representing your startup! It'll help get your name out there, even if its not exactly the right area (try find a conference that focuses no what you want to be known for, rather then fit the paper). |
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Publishing is serious work, and a serious business for most of us. Unless you have real interest in Academia try to restrain yourself from publishing if you really are not that much into it, since it is that kind of practices what fill the environment with overwhelmingly useless citations. When writing a paper remember it has to be something that has to be quotable and has to endure, otherwise is not worth publishing it. you might try to attend conferences and see more or less the level, it is always possible to attend a conference without writing a paper. |
Why not just put it online?
That would be a 'white-paper'. A valid option, but getting it published has a lot more weight. I think its worth the effort, especially considering the research would of been done to 'academic standard' anyway.
"put it online" doesn't have mean low quality, here's a fun example -- http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/33082/title/Math_Trek__Accidental_astrophysicists
Fully understand, but quality doesn't mean recognition - unless you plan to advertise the document yourself, it may be hard to get people to find it
Dunno, for someone not going into academic research, a paper at EMNLP may be as useful as one at WMSCI (not very)