Careful with the Collobert ICML-2008 paper. It has a very negative reputation among NLP researchers who actually know the area, just for its setup/evaluation.

Careful with the Collobert ICML-2008 paper. It has a very negative reputation among NLP researchers who actually know the area, just for its setup/evaluation. If you're interested in the methods (which I think are interesting), that group's later work is much improved.