I'm starting my PhD in a little under a week. Today I was offered a research assistantship in the natural language processing lab at UT Dallas. That was completely unexpected! I had been searching for a job because all teaching assistantships were taken for the semester, and RA spots usually aren't awarded until you've been around for a while and proven yourself. I talked to the director of research today, though, and I think he just took pity on me. :) So, now I have a fun semester to look forward to. All I have to do is 1) do research in a field, natural language processing, which I know next to nothing about, 2) study the thing I'm really interested in (genetic programming) and try to fit it into said research, 3) take two courses from the head professors in the natural language processing lab, 4) study for qualifying exams in 5 core subject areas I haven't thought about much since my masters degree 4 years ago, and 5) I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M UP TO FUCKING 5! Wish me luck. |
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SHOW US YOUR SLAB! |
your brains in the air around those less gifted? |
the nlp, not the brains. |
d00d, Nate, ever used WordNet? I have to absorb it this weekend... |
i'm not on the research end of the stick, anyway. my focus is on applications of various nlp technologies for customer interaction management. |