LSA 306: Computational Linguistics in Industry

LSA 306
Computational Linguistics in Industry
Summer 2007

Dan Jurafsky, jurafsky@stanford.edu Office: Margaret Jacks Hall (bld 460) 113
Chris Manning, manning@cs.stanford.edu Office: Gates 158

T/F 3:45-5:30 PM

100 Cordura Hall

For this lecture series course we will have guest lectures from a number of distinguished computational linguists in industry.

Write a short paper (max 5 pages) on either:

1. The uses of computational linguistics in the tech industry today and places where there are good opportunities in the future.
2. A commentary on interesting things you learned from various speakers about personal career paths and how the tech world works.

In either case, you should make sure your paper draws on things said by at least 6 different speakers in the course.

Peter Norvig, Google