Resources for computational linguistics
Hauptseminar at the Department of Computational Lingusitics and Phonetics, Saarland UniversityWinter Semester 2005/2006
Teachers
Ivana Kruijff-KorbayováMagdalena Wolska
General course description
See Vorlesungsverzeichniss WS 2005/2006Literature
See scheduleFormalities
Registration (Anmeldung zur Prüfungsleistung)
Students who want to get the credits for this course have to register (see Klausurrichtlinien).To register, go to the URL for registration (Anmeldung)
Deadline: 31 January 2006 (this is a binding registration that you want to obtain credits for this course)
Credits
Full credits (participation, homeworks, talk, paper)
MSc/BSc (Hauptseminar): 9 ECTSDiplom-CL/CL-NF (Hauptseminar): 4LP
Partial credits (participation, homeworks, talk)
MSc/BSc (Hauptseminar): 4 ECTSDiplom-CL/CL-NF (Hauptseminar): 2LP
(Note: The partial credits number has changed to be consistent with other courses.)
Credit Requirements
Amount of coursework: approx. 270 hours- participation in class/lab: approx. 30 hrs
- talk preparation: approx. 30 hrs
- additional reading, paper writing: approx. 120 hrs
- required reading and homework assignments: approx. 90 hrs (approx. 6 hrs per week)
(Note: The distribution of work load has changed reflecting the change in credits.)
Required reading
- general reading assigned for each thematic block (see schedule)
- specific reading assigned for each session (see schedule)
Homework Assignments
Homework assignments throughout the semester (see homeworks)Talk (Referat)
- topic and general outline at least three weeks before scheduled talk (in person or per email)
- slides at least one week weeks before scheduled talk (personal appointment, slides one day before by email)
- final version of slides within one week after talk
You can use your own laptop for the presentation or ours (in that case, get us the slides (PDF or PowerPoint): bring a file on a memory stick, put it somewhere for downloading or send it to us by email).
Come 15 min before the seminar on the day of your presentation to set things up!
Paper (Hausarbeit)
Preliminary schedule (If it presents a problem w.r.t. other study obligations, please contact us.)- 6 January 2006 topic specification and abstract (max 1.2 page)
- 31 January 2006 outline detailing issues, structure and argumentation
- 28 February 2006 complete paper
Length: 15 pages (max. 18);
Formatting requirements: Nothing special. Use a standard article style in LaTeX or a standard document template in Word; 11pt or 12pt font size. Make sure you do citations etc. properly.
Some useful tips about writing a paper:
- Slides from a lecture by IKK on Formal Aspects of (not only) Seminar Papers
- Handout of a lecture by Geert-Jan Kruijff on Structure in Writing