Hopkins hope held out

[trochee]

As mentioned before in this journal, I've been to JHU's summer school for computational linguistics before (summer of 2003), and I had a chance (that didn't pan out) to go to the workshops last summer.

This week I've just been volunteered by my advisor to be one of the students on a project to work on parsing conversational speech (longtime readers will recognize that this is the subject of my master's thesis work!). The proposal is being headed by a certain bigshot in the NSF, so there's a reasonable chance it'll be accepted.

Unlike last year's proposal, this year if the proposal is accepted, there's a near 100% guarantee that I'll be able to participate. Baltimore isn't my favorite place in the world to spend summer 2005, but it would be really good to have the experience and networking opportunities that it will provide.

Comments

[evan.livejournal.com]

there's some sort of comp ling thing going on this week at the uw, right? (or is it in two weeks?) i plan to be there for it.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

yup, there's a poster session here. There's a debacle around that that I'll share some time. I may or not have a poster.

Come say hi anyway.

Cool!

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

That would be fun! I can point you to the farmers' market.

Re: Cool!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

yay, please do!

But you may as well wait until I know whether I'm in. No sense in getting too tied up in hoping.

[alice-ayers.livejournal.com]

Very cool. And Baltimore is not the worst place in the world, weekend trips to DC, NYC, etc...

[trochee.livejournal.com]

heh. weekends? we'll not have weekends. This is a working summer. (Well, maybe the occasional weekend. But no way for the first few weeks.)

[chachachana.livejournal.com]

that sounds great! *crosses fingers* and congratulations! :)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

thank you! I hope it'll work out.

[elwe.livejournal.com]

Ooh! That sounds like a really interesting topic

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

You'll have to tell me again what "parsing" means. Yeah, a new english word for me !
Baltimore ... well ... if you must...
;)

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Well, I share your doubts about Baltimore in the summer, but YOU'LL BE ON THE EAST COAST!!!!!

Maine before or after? Let's try to plan something!