Machine Learning and Natural Language

Fall 2005

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Student Survey

(09/06/05)

Please return the survey asap after the first meeting of the class.

It is available from the course web page. You can email it to me.

Name:

Major/Department:

Year:

Email:

How well do you know the following (0=not at all,5=fluent)

Perl

Python

C

C++

Awk

Java

Unix

Latex

HTML

Please quantify your knowledge and previous experience in
the following topics (0=none,5=read a lot,taken a course recently):

Natural Language Processing

AI

Machine Learning

Learning Theory

Algorithms

Statistics

Probability

Information Theory

Information Retrieval

Linguistics

Please check what best applies:

___Currently registered for the course

___Probably will register

___Might register

___Auditing

___Whoops, I'm in the wrong room...

Do you have any experience participating in a large team software project?
In what role (part of a team, managing a team)?

What are your goals for the class? Which topics/areas would you like emphasized?
Are there any topics not on the syllabus that you would like to be covered?

I may modify my current plans for the small experimental projects and the large group projects.
Do you have any suggestions/preferences for any of these?