24 July 2010  ACL 2010 Retrospective  ACL 2010 finished up in
Sweden a week ago or so. Overall, I enjoyed my time there (the
local organization was great, though I think we got hit with
unexpected heat, so those of us who didn't feel like booking a
room at the Best Western -- hah! why would I have done that?! --
had no A/C and my room was about 28-30 every night).  But you
don't come here to hear about sweltering nights, you come to
hear about papers. My list is actually pretty short this time.
I'm not quite sure why that happened. Perhaps NAACL sucked up a
lot of the really good stuff, or I went to the wrong sessions,
or something. (Though my experience was echoed by a number of
people (n=5) I spoke to after the conference.) Anyway, here are
the things I found interesting.    • Beyond NomBank: A Study of
Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates, by Matthew Gerber and
Joyce Chai (this was the Best Long Paper award recipient). This
was by far my favorite paper of the conference. For all you
students out there