CLMS Orientation 2019

Recordings

Recordings will be available in the Graduation Planning Canvas.

Slides

Slides will be available on patas under dropbox/19-20/orientation

Schedule

Monday, September 23rd

Smith 304
9:10-9:40 Welcome and Introduction Bender
 
  • Plan for the day
  • A brief introduction to UW CLMS
  • University resources & where to find them
 
9:40-9:55 Faculty Introductions  
 
  • Emily M. Bender
  • Fei Xia
  • Gina Levow
  • Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
  • Jungyeul Park
 
9:55-10:15 Student Introductions (Brief)  
10:15-10:30 Break
Smith 304
10:30-11:00 History and Scope of Computational Linguistics
Relationship of CompLing to Linguistics		 Bender
11:00-11:30 Relationship of Compling to Computer Science
State of the Art in CompLing		 Levow
11:30-12:00 Cross-cutting themes Steinert-Threlkeld
 
  • Ethics
  • Evaluation
  • Multilinguality
  • Ambiguity resolution
 
The Center Table
12:00-1:30 Lunch at the Center Table
Savery 264
1:30-2:30 General Linguistics orientation  
 
  • Meet other grad students
  • Meet non-compling faculty
  • General departmental information
  • Campus safety information
  • GPSS
 
Guggenheim 4th Floor
2:30-3:00 Department tour  
 
  • Main office
  • Faculty offices
  • Treehouse lab
 
3:00-3:10 Break
Smith 304
3:10-4:10 Computing Resources Brandon Graves, System Administrator
 
  • Meet Patas!
  • Lab facilities overview, lab policies
  • Software and corpora installed
  • Path name info
  • Submitting jobs (Condor cluster)
  • Treehouse access
 
4:10-4:20 Break  
4:20-4:50 Job hunting tips Xia

Tuesday, September 24th

Please bring your laptop (if you have one) for the programming tutorials today.
Smith 304
9:00-10:00 More Detailed Overview of the CLMS Program Bender, CLMS Director
 
  • Courses (including electives), course projects
  • How they fit into the program and into the scope of CompLing
  • Industry trends and how we are keeping up
  • Career paths (industry, government, academia)
  • Program requirements; quarterly updates and leave policy
  • Internship opportunities
  • MS project options; graduation planning meetings
  • Treehouse meetings and other reading groups
 
10:00-10:10 Break
10:10-10:40 Writing in grad school Bender
 
  • Expections
  • Resources
  • Tips
 
10:40-10:50 Break  
10:50-11:50 Library orientation Dan Mandeville
The Ave
11:50-1:50 Lunch on the Ave
Smith 304
1:50-2:10 The World of CompLing Levow
 
  • Websites
  • Conferences
  • Journals
  • Applications
 
2:10-2:50 Short tutorial on Unix Bender
2:50-3:00 Break
3:00-3:30 Short tutorial on Canvas/Zoom Levow
3:30-4:10 Short tutorial on git and other collaboration tools Steinert-Threlkeld
4:10-4:20 Break
4:20-5:00 Short tutorial on Python Steinert-Threlkeld