Evangelising language technology: a practically - focussed undergraduate program

Robert Dale; Diego Mollá Aliod; Rolf Schwitter

doi:10.3115/1118108.1118112

Evangelising language technology: a practically - focussed undergraduate program

Robert Dale, Diego Mollá Aliod, Rolf Schwitter

School of Computing

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This paper describes an undergraduate program in Language Technology that we have developed at Macquarie University. We question the industrial relevance of much that is taught in NLP courses, and emphasize the need for a practical orientation as a means to growing the size of the field. We argue that a more evangelical approach, both with regard to students and industry, is required. The paper provides an overview of the material we cover, and makes some observations for the future on the basis of our experiences so far.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	7-12 July 2002, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of Publication	San Francisco
Publisher	Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Pages	27-32
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781558608832
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1118108.1118112
Publication status	Published - 2002
Event	Association for Computational Linguistics Meeting (40th : 2002) - Philadelphia Duration: 7 Jul 2002 → 12 Jul 2002

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Conference	Association for Computational Linguistics Meeting (40th : 2002)
City	Philadelphia
Period	7/07/02 → 12/07/02

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Dale, R , Mollá Aliod, D & Schwitter, R 2002, Evangelising language technology: a practically - focussed undergraduate program. in 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 7-12 July 2002, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, pp. 27-32, Association for Computational Linguistics Meeting (40th : 2002), Philadelphia, 7/07/02. https://doi.org/10.3115/1118108.1118112

Evangelising language technology: a practically - focussed undergraduate program. / Dale, Robert ; Mollá Aliod, Diego ; Schwitter, Rolf.
40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: 7-12 July 2002, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002. p. 27-32.

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