Achievement

A leading goal of the past two years has been to strengthen training and research opportunities for students in computational modeling. This year a group of new faculty in 3 departments has made this a reality. Naomi Feldman (Linguistics) has started regular computational psycholinguistics lab meetings, attended by around 12 students from Linguistics and Computer Science. Jordan Boyd-Graber (iSchool) serves as rotation advisor for IGERT students Maria Sol Lago and Pedro Alcocer, and he leads the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing meetings that are attended by students from all involved departments. Hal Daumé (Computer Science), Boyd-Graber and Feldman will teach a cross-departmental computational linguistics IGERT seminar in Spring 2013. Students are now more comfortable moving between these 3 departments, and plans are underway to restructure the relevant components of the computer science curriculum to make them more suitable for a cross-department audience.