AN ACL-02 WORKSHOP

        EFFECTIVE TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR TEACHING NATURAL
          LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

          July 7, 2002 (the day before the main conference)
                        Philadelphia, PA, USA

	Bodek Room, Room 100 Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street


                              Co-chairs:

                  Chris Brew, Ohio State University
                Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan


SCHEDULE


8:55-9:05 Introduction: Dragomir Radev and Chris Brew
 
 
9:10-9:30 Teaching NLP/CL through games: the case of Parsing
 Hans van Halteren
 U. of Nijmegen
 
9:30-9:55
 An interactive spreadsheet for teaching the forward-backward algorithm
 Jason Eisner
 Johns Hopkins
 
9:55-10:25 Coffee Break

10:25-10:50
 The design and development of a system of Web-based courses in
 constraint-based formalisms and parsing
 Detmar Meurers and Gerald Penn and Frank Richter
 Ohio State U. and Toronto and Tuebingen
 
10:50-11:15
 Evangelising Language Technology: A practically-focused undergraduate program
 Robert Dale et al.
 Macquarie University 

11:15-11:40
 A niche at the nexus: situating an NLP curriculum interdisciplinarily
 Deryle Lonsdale
 Brigham Young U.
 
11:40-11:50 Short break

 11:50-12:15
 Design and evolution of a language technologies curriculum
 Robert Frederking et al.
 CMU
 
 12:15 - 12:40 
 Using Gate as an environment for teaching NLP
 Kalina Bontcheva et al. 
 U. of Sheffield

 12:40-2:00 Lunch break

 1:40  - 2:15 Poster session
 
 Formal Language Theory for Natural Language Processing
 Shuly Wintner
 U. of Haifa
 
 Lexical grammar 101
 Matt Stone
 Rutgers U

 Teaching Computational Linguistics at the University of Tartu: ...
 Mare Koit and Tiit Roosmaa
 University of Tartu
 
 
Panel: 2:15-3:15 


Coffee Break 3:15-3:45
 
 
 3:30-3:45 Break
 
 3:45-4:10
 A non-programming introduction to computer science via NLP, IR, and AI
 Lillian Lee
 Cornell U. 

 4:10-4:35
 NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit
 Loper/Bird
 U. Penn
 
 4:35-4:45 Break
 
 4:45-5:30 Final discussion