LSA 306
Computational Linguistics in Industry
Summer 2007

COURSE INFORMATION
Instructors
Dan Jurafsky, jurafsky@stanford.edu Office: Margaret Jacks Hall (bld 460) 113
Chris Manning, manning@cs.stanford.edu Office: Gates 158
Time
T/F 3:45-5:30 PM
Location
100 Cordura Hall
Description
For this lecture series course we will have guest lectures from a number of distinguished computational linguists in industry.
Required Work
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.


SCHEDULE
Date
Time
Lec

Lecturer and Readings
Fri July 6
 3:45pm-4:35pm

Peter Norvig, Google

Fri July 6
 4:40pm-5:30pm

Mike Cohen, Google

Tue July 10
 3:45pm-4:35pm

Ron Kaplan, Powerset

Tue July 10
 4:40pm-5:30pm

David Bean, Attensity

Fri July 13
 3:45pm-4:35pm

Beth Ann Hockey, UC Santa Cruz

Fri July 13
 4:40pm-5:30pm

Jared Bernstein, Ordinate Corporation
Tue July 17
 3:45pm-4:35pm

Elizabeth Strand, Tellme, A Microsoft Subsidiary

Tue July 17
 4:40pm-5:30pm

Dick Oehrle, Anna Cueni, Jason Brenier, and Steve Roberts, Cataphora
Fri July 20
 3:45pm-4:35pm

Hadar Shemtov, Yahoo
Fri July 20
 4:40pm-5:30pm

Mike Calcagno, Microsoft
Tue July 24
 3:45pm-4:35pm

Chris Cox, Facebook

Tue July 24
 4:40pm-5:30pm

Chris Hogan, H5

Fri July 27
 3:45pm-4:35pm

Fuliang Weng, Bosch
Fri July 27
 4:40pm-5:30pm

Bill Dolan, Microsoft