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Course Outline Fall 2015:

Date Topic
8/28 Introduction: Discussion of course goals and structure; presentation of all participants and their research interests; faculty discuss their most recent work and interests
9/4 What’s Happening in Computational Linguistics: Baldridge, Erk
9/11 Show and Tell: Alex, Islam, Joey, Pengxiang, Stephen
9/18 Show and Tell: Chris, Grant, Jason M. Dissertation practice talk: Ben
9/25 Get Acquainted: Brief presentations of prior research by new students
10/2 Fundamentals: Machine learning techniques; Visit by James Scott, DSDS & McCombs faculty.
10/9 Dissertation presentation: Ben Wing.
10/16 Fundamentals: Programming languages, toolkits, and scaling data and computation; Includes visit by Steve Blackmon.
10/23 Guest discussion: Elias Ponvert will discuss working in industry after obtaining PhD in computational linguistics.
10/30 Fundamentals: Practical advice: How to develop your graduate career and plan for after graduation. Courses at UT Austin outside linguistics. Internships, work/life balance, academia and industry. Blogging, social media and social coding.
11/6 Fundamentals: Developing a research program and writing papers and grant proposals: Erk
11/13 Fundamentals: Industry, entrepreneurship & ethics: Baldridge.
11/20 What’s Happening: Historical trends in computational linguistics, including deep learning: Baldridge, Erk
11/27 THANKSGIVING, NO CLASS
12/4 Dissertation progress report: Jason Mielens
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