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A plain-English description of a Computational Linguistics Thesis

Written by Patrick Hall, August 22nd, 2008

This is a great idea:

Markus Dickinson, an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at U of Indiana, wrote up a primer on what his first publication was about for “non-linguistic friends and family.”

He explains a pretty complex thesis topic (finding errors in automated part-of-speech tagging) from the ground up, in a way that’s accessible to folks who might never have heard of Computational Linguistics.

I wonder if any other professorial types out there have done something similar? Hard sort of thing to search for.

2 Comments for 'A plain-English description of a Computational Linguistics Thesis'

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    Comment received August 22nd, 2008 from ke

    A very good idea! All I can contribute currently is my knowledge about a very good, hands-on introduction to CL for non-linguistic people (but mostly for those considering studying CL) - in German: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/lehre/leitfaden/

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    Comment received August 22nd, 2008 from Patrick Hall

    Hi Ke,

    Thanks for the pointer, looks interesting… too bad my German is nicht sehr gut!

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