Best Dressed NLP Researchers 2015 - Wei Xu "Coco"

Some highlights from the past year:

I heard one last year's winner told his/her colleagues to stay away from me if they are not wearing nice clothes.
Another last year's winner told me that this list directs a big chunk of traffic to his homepage.

Another thought of the year:

Only a small fraction of women's clothes sold in the stores are great for CS academia, while most men's clothes are acceptable. I didn't realize this until this year, so maybe many people didn't think about this either. In the hotel elevator at EMNLP this year, I overheard a male student expressing his disapproval over a dress his group mate was wearing. Whether you are a man or a woman, I think this article "Coding Like a Girl" will worth a read.

Last year's list is here. If you want to nominate someone, please email me at xwe@cis.upenn.edu.

-- Wei Xu Dec 11, 2015

Dirk Hovy earned it this year by his three piece suit. Normally it would have been toooo overdressed, but somehow, probably his full package (hair + personality + whatever) just makes you (at least me) feel right about it.
Jacob Eisenstein THE hipster of NLP.
Lillian Lee You may see for yourself -- here's a video of her giving keynote at NAACL.
Luke Zettlemoyer for his man bun. I also like Noah Smith's suggestion of a tiny fedora.
Marine Carpuat master of blazer.
Mark Yatskar not only pulled off a man bun look, but then a shaved head!
Marlies van der Wees the youngest on the list. I noticed her work/talk first at ACL then floral pants at EMNLP.
Matt Post I guess I declared Jacob to be the hipster too fast. This is THE other one.
Yejin Choi when I was unsure about what to wear, I referred to her as my inspiration.
[Empty Slot] ... I haven't been able to make 10 for the list of most humorous NLP researchers yet, either. I so far have Ray Mooney for that, also John DeNero, Kevin Knight, Lillian Lee and Yoav Artzi.

Anders Søgaard subtle almost a bit mysterious
Chris Callison-Burch Half of me thinks it is unfair to put him on the list, since I work with him; half of me thinks it is also unfair to not put him on the list. Readers, you make your own judgement.
Kathy McKeown master of dress.
Kevin Knight has a good and interesting taste (saw him in a culture icon T-shirt at NAACL), and seems to like to go freestyle for some other days.
William Yang Wang I think I paid more attention to what we were talking about than his clothes. They're usually good --- keep watching.
Adam Lopez (same as above)
Amittai Axelrod (same as above)
Claire Cardie (same as above)
Dan Jurafsky (same as above)
Dekai Wu (same as above)
Jonathan Berant (same as above)
Pascale Fung (same as above)
Rebecca Hwa (same as above)