test 9 test 1 2 Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl Python Other FORTRAN! 3 4 5 Engineering Free Food! test 9 test I took myself off of the email list as well... responses are stored in studentresponses.txt, which is world readable (777, for apache), so you might want to correct that. test Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl Python Other fortran yeah! language, german, some cog scie nlp/com sci Science lunch ist sehr gut! test 9 test I took myself off of the email list as well... responses are stored in studentresponses.txt, which is world readable (777, for apache), so you might want to correct that. test Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl Python Other fortran yeah! language, german, some cog scie nlp/com sci Science lunch ist sehr gut! test 9 test I took myself off of the email list as well... responses are stored in studentresponses.txt, which is world readable (777, for apache), so you might want to correct that. test Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl Python Other fortran yeah! language, german, some cog scie nlp/com sci Science lunch ist sehr gut! Enzo 6 moe@mit.edu Visiting graduate student in linguistics. Experience with neural networks (I admit I've used simulators) No programming background Italian native speaker fluent in English Enrolled in Cognitive science program at the Siena University (Italy) with very special interest in linguistics. Can a children built syntactic structures from the input? Is the input really poor? Can a neural network work like a pharser? Science test3 test3 newtest -B works. I forgot to edit the submit tag, which is not set by default in netscape, but is set in ie. which is the correct way is debatable; either case, should work correctly in all browsers now. Wan Li Zhu 6 wlz@mit.edu I'm an EECS MEng student expecting to graduate this June. My academic interests are AI and finance. My programming experience started here at MIT and has been largely associated with UROPs and internships. I would categorize myself as a decent (not good) programmer. Java Python I speak Chinese Mandarin natively. I speak and write English. I have no background in linguistics or cognitive science. I hope to gain a good overview of computational linguistics and NLP and hopefully use the knowledge that I acquire in a future job or research project. I can do lunch on Monday and Wednesday anytime from 12-1:30PM, and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 12-1:00PM. Jennifer Shu 6 jshu@mit.edu computer science. this is my first semester as an MEng student i've done lots of application development and web development. also some assembly programming Java C/C++ can speak and write some chinese and spanish none i hope to learn NLP techniques to help in my masters research. interested in parsing free text into a set terminology any tuesday or thursday should be ok. fridays are fine too EXCEPT for feb 27, march 12, april 2, april 23, and may 7 Russell Zahniser 8 zahniser@mit.edu Physics; I'll be graduating this June. I'm also getting certified to teach high school. Lots of C/C++ for many years, branching out eventually into Java, Perl, and Assembly; others, most recently Scheme Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl Latin and German fluently, a moderate amount of Spanish and ancient Greek (2 semesters each of classes) My German/Greek teacher in high school was very uch into linguistics and tried to make sure we saw the linguistic side of what we were learning as well as the practical side. I'm most interested in coding systems that respond intelligently to input, in a certain restricted field; optimally I would like to be able to code a system that can read over a student answer to a physics problem and offer constructive feedback. That's the practical side of what I want out of the class. Mainly, however, I'm taking the class because the science of linguistics and the rules that govern it is something that greatly excites me, as I discovered from hearing a bit about it in 6.034 last term. I'm free from 12:30-1:30 on MW and 12-1:30 on TR. Tiferet Levine 6 tiferet@ai.mit.edu I am a first year grad student, working with Eric Grimson on medical computer vision. My background is in physics and math, though, with almost no CS. Some Matlab experience, one Java class taken ages ago (or so it feels). Other Matlab English, Hebrew, used to know Spanish pretty well but I've pretty much forgotten it all. None, really.... As someone who grew up speaking two very different languages, I've always been amazed that humans are able to make any kind of sense of the mish-mash of often-broken rules, exceptions, and ambiguity that is language. I am very curious to understand how this process may work by trying to take it apart and build it up from scratch in a computer application. Also, I am generally interested in AI (interested enough that I switched from physics to computer vision). Science My schedule for the semester is not fully set yet, but it looks like a Wednesday lunch would be best for me. Andrew Hogue 6 ahogue@mit.edu MEng, graduating in June. Thesis on wrapper induction and pattern matching on the web. Very strong Java, Perl, XML, SQL, Linux. A little bit of C. No Lisp since 6.001/6.034. Java Perl Python Just English (some Latin, though!) None, other than independent readings. I've never been exposed to much linguistics, but keep running into it in my research and reading, so I want to get a foundation to understand those better. Science I am only free MW 12-1:30. Filip Antic 6 fantic@mit.edu I am first year MENG student, studying Telecommunications. Know Java - taken 6.170. Have basic knowledge of Scheme, C, C++. Java C/C++ Serbian - native. English - speak, read and write. Russian - speak. No college level classes in linguistics, but moderately good knowledge of Serbian Grammar. One introductory college level class in psychology. I have no expectations. Amanda C. Smith 6 auroraz@mit.edu I am studying computer science and am in my third year, with most 6-3 requirements finished. I am also taking various linguistics courses My programming background consists mainly of Java from 6.170 and Scheme from 6.001, with only a minor bit of other experience. Scheme/Lisp Java A small bit of Spanish once upon a time, but I haven't tried since high school. I have taken 24.900 and 24.904 (language acquisition) and am taking 24.903 (semantics) this term. I have a strong interest in linguistics and would like to minor, although schedule conflicts may prevent me. I hope to learn how to connect computer science with linguistics, as they are my strongest academic interests. I'm not sure what you mean by "what hours from 12-1:30". That's only an hour and a half. Not much choice for what hours. However I have the 12-1:30 slot free on Thursdays. Winnie Cheng 6 wwcheng@mit.edu First Year PhD student in CSAIL - mostly C, low-level assembly, hardware design lang - some C++, Java Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl Other yes, Fortran, Pascal, Ada - speak Chinese - recognize little bit of French, Latin none - new to the area of NLP, found first lecture very interesting Engineering - Tuesdays in second half of quarter Jake Pinato 6 jpinato Computer Science. Graduating Senior. Strong grasp of Java, a few years of work experience and 6.170. Don't remember scheme too well, but could probably catch on fairly quickly if I had to. Scheme/Lisp Java Other VBA Some japanese, some spanish. none. Applying AI techniques to natural langauge processing intrigues me. Engineering Don't know my schedule yet. Most days are probably fine. Steve Liu 6 steveliu@mit.edu I am studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and am in my fourth year at MIT. Good. Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ I can speak Mandarin. I hope to learn more about NLP in general. I have worked in a research group on vision and I hope to appreciate the language aspect more. Science MWF Rob Speer 6 rspeer@mit.edu I'm fairly into AI and NLP, but this is the first class I've taken in either. You know how much I like Python. I did well in 6.170. I manage to apply 6.170 to my Python code. I've also done well in the C++ programming competition TopCoder, though I couldn't write a Makefile for the life of me. Java C/C++ Python Spanish, Lojban, a miniscule amount of Japanese I really like linguistics, but haven't gotten to take a course in it. I hope to learn cool ways to parse stuff, and learn how to work with semantic representations to make an AI system. Engineering I have 12-1:30 free on Wednesday. I also have just 12-1 free on Monday. Your form for the "Science/Engineering/Both" option is messed up - the "both" option is selected separately. It's what I really wanted to click, but I can't deselect the other. Diane Christoforo 6 diane_c@mit.edu I'm a junior in 6-3 ... I still have to take an Institute Lab, but I'm basically at the point of taking lots of Course Six electives - which is why I'm in this class. I'd like to M. Eng and do more AI work. I've taken 6.170 and 6.034. I've played around with some Perl on my own. I know some minimal C. Scheme/Lisp Java Perl I know a small amount of Spanish, but I've forgotten most of it. None. I'm ready for enlightenment. :) I took 6.034 Intensive, and we did both of our projects on something natural language processing-ish. So now I want to see how it's really done. (I also played a lot of Zork - a text adventure - a few years ago and I'm curious how old games wrote _their_ parsers.) I actually have _no_ day where I'm completely free from 12-1:30. On Fridays I'm free from 12-1, and on Tuesdays or Thursdays I could skip 6.003 lecture and go out. Amy Williams 6 amy@mit.edu I'm a first year grad student studying Computer Science (specifically program analysis). Having gotten my bachelor's degree in Computer Science, I've done extensive programming, mostly in C++. Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl None I took an Intro to Linguistics course last year. I'm primarily interested in the AI techniques that will be discussed in this course. Linguistics is only of secondary interest. Science I can do it pretty much any Monday or Friday. Allen Rabinovich 6 aramis@mit.edu I am course 6-2, and I am done with all requirements. I have a programming experience in Java and C (mostly class-based), and experience in Python (from my UROP) Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Python I am fluent in English and Russian; reading ability in French I have taken Introduction to Psychology, but that's about all. I am hoping to learn the intricacies involved in building a natural language processing system and hopefully the science behind it. Monday, Wednesday, Friday anytime from 12-1:30 Sharon Cohen sbcohen@mit.edu Sharon Cohen 6 sbcohen@mit.edu I'm not sure what you mean by this but I am a senior in course 6. I have taken 6.034 most of my programming experience is from classes (scheme) and java in 170. I'm not the strongest programmer. Scheme/Lisp Java I took spanish in high school and can understand some of it. I took 24.900 and 24.903 monday/wednesday/friday 12 - 2 I am free. I don't have a specific day preference. Michael Ollendieck 6 mollendieck@partners.org I am studying for a masters in health science technology, specifically medical informatics. I expect to finish up summer 2004. I graduated with a BS in EE in 1992 and was exposed to Fortran, Pascal, and C. I spent a couple years doing LabVIEW. I am now in my third year of a Medical Informatics fellowship and have used mostly Javascript during that time. Scheme/Lisp Other VB, Javascript none none I want to be able to parse medical text: dictated visit notes, discharge summaries. Engineering feb 25th mar 1, 8,15,29 april 5, 7, 14 Patrick Y. Kim 6 pyk@mit.edu VI-3, senior. have taken: 6.001-6.004, 6.034, 6.046, 6.041, 6.042, 6.111, 6.170, 6.185, 6.833. am taking: 6.033, 6.863, 6.871 comp sci in high school (general C++ programming); 6.001 freshman year; 6.170 junior year. other than that... basic xhtml, css, javascript. Java C/C++ English, Spanish, Korean no formal education... innate (or seemingly so) love and intuition for languages. not really sure. i'm just hoping to broaden my understanding of natural language and the computational representation of it. As of 2/8/2004, 12-1:30p on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays are fine. If Mondays and Wednesdays are the only available option, then the occasional M or W should be manageable. Philip Rha 6 prha@mit.edu I am studying Computer Science and am about to complete my Bachelor of Science. I am also starting my graduate program for my Masters. I have 4+ years experience programming in Java, and a few years experience with C++. I also have programmed a bit in Python. Java C/C++ English I have taken 24.900, Introduction to Linguistics. I know that natural language processing is extremely difficult. I hope to learn how much can be done to process language computationally. I really don't know much about the subject, although it seems very interesting. Science I am free for lunch and discussion most Mondays. Fumiaki Shiraishi 6 fumi@mit.edu I am a course 6 Masters student. Studied Computer Science in Undergrad. Worked in the software industry for 4 years, mainly for video game companies. Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Other PHP Japanese, a tiny bit of French and Korean Essentially none, except reading a few fun books on the subject. Basic background in computational linguistics, what the state of the art is, what people are doing now, and where it could go in the next few years. This might be rather cliche, but by learning about natural language processing, I thought I could get more ideas about how human intelligence works. Any friday, I am free between 12-1:30pm. On Monday and Wednesday, I am free from noon until 1:00pm. Ryan Manuel 6 rfmanuel@mit.edu Course VI senior I have significant programming experience in both class and real world terms. Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ German relatively proficient None I'm interested in how the human brain works to process language and how that can be applied (if possible) to computers processing language Justin Fitzpatrick 24 jfitzpat@mit.edu 3rd year graduate student. I specialize in morpho-phonology and syntactic theory. took 6.001, have fiddled with C and some other things. Not much experience, really. Scheme/Lisp Spanish (fluent, especially after a beer or two), Portuguese, French, Italian (passable, but broken), have studied Russian, Old English, and Latin. B.A. in linguistics from U of Michigan, currently grad student in Linguistics at MIT I want to become more familiar with the current state of computational implementations of linguistic theories/models, and see what computational linguistics has to offer formal linguists. Science Cannot make it Wednesdays; Mondays are bad, but possible. Anthony Reinen 6 reinen@mit.edu Senior is course 6 and course 15. One class left in the first major, two in the second. I've done a bit of java in class and in internships. I barely remember any scheme. Java None. None. I'm mainly interested in how computers can interpret and replicate spoken languages, and how far we've come with things like voice recognition software. Science I'm free every day from 12-1:30. Birendro Roy 6 birenroy@mit.edu 6-2, M.Eng I have about 8 years of programming experience. I'm very familiar with general concepts like scoping, abstract data types, class hierarchies and such. I'm reasonably familiar with client/server architectures, daemons, event-driven programming, parsers, and finite state machines. Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl Other Pascal Japanese (speaking, some reading and writing), can read some French. Very sparse. I was most intrigued by the inclusion of "Computer Representation of Knowledge" in the course title. If we can give computers the ability to truly know and understand something, even the most basic of concepts, that will change the way we interact with them on the most basic level. Any Tuesday or Friday excluding March 9, 13. Any Monday or Wednesday given 1 day's notice, except for March 7, 12, 14. Erin Rhode other 18C&8B errhode 2nd term senior studying math with computer science and physics... have spent most of the last year and a half focusing on computer science, including a urop last summer that involved natural language processing of medical abstracts 6.001 + 6.170 (ie scheme and java) also know perl and lisp (which admittedly, is almost the same as scheme) didn't learn to program until 6.001, but I learn fast... 6.170 taught me that I can learn a language in less than a week if need be Scheme/Lisp Java Perl A minimal amount of German from high school, but now I think I can mostly just read it I took 24.900 and had a urop parsing medical abstracts last summer Last summer I worked mostly with syntax, but it was mostly me piecing things together on my own, without any real background. I'd like to learn what other people already know so I don't have to repeat a discovery. Any Tuesday or Thursday from 12-1:30... Fridays if given a week's notice Jonathan Yoni Battat 6 yonib@mit.edu I'm a VI-2 junior. Extensive programming experience Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl Python Other basic, assembly, html, asp english, hebrew, aramaic Not much. But interested for the sake of exploitation so that my engineering designs have a higher potential for success. I'd like to learn computational/engineering models that make use of soft/pseudo "scientific" observations of human interactions. Engineering Are we considering conginitive science to be the science aspect mentioned above? Aaron D. Fernandes 6 afernandes@mit.edu M.Eng., concentrating in AI, specifically NLP. Final semester. proficient in Java, familiar with Scheme. some Perl as well Scheme/Lisp Java Perl a little bit of Spanish, but I tend to have good linguistic intuitions, and learn to generalize about new languages rather quickly I minored in Course 9 (by taking all the undergraduate linguistics classes), so yeah - a little of both. content extraction, question answering MW after 12:30 TRF any time Margaret Douglass 6 douglass@mit.edu I'm a 6-3 M.Eng student. So this is my 5th year at MIT, and I've done a lot of work in computer science and biology. I program a lot for my classes, my thesis, and my work. My favorite languages are Java and Perl. Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Perl basic German only what is covered in 9.00 (intro to psychology) I'm just generally curious about the capabilities of NLP applications. Science Any Wednesday or Friday is good for me. adam kiezun 6 akiezun@mit.edu computer science, PhD 1st year 4 years of professional java programming at ibm research oti labs Scheme/Lisp Java C/C++ Other smalltalk english, some limited german theoretical methods used in nlp interest me most but all ai-ish (other than minimax search) computer science is new and interesting to me Science any day is fine, preferred after march 19. Matthew Tschantz 6 tschantz Undergrad/MENG, plan to get both in 2005. Lots of Java (UROP, 6.170), not much on the AI side though. Scheme/Lisp Java None None How computers can figure out the meaning of sentances. Science I can meet Mondays and Wednesday I don't have class from 12 to 2. Meredith Gerber 6 gerber@mit.edu fourth year undergrad, course 6-1 scheme experience (some beyond 6.001) basic knowledge of c limited experience with java proficient in matlab Scheme/Lisp C/C++ German (speaking and writing) I've taken 24.900, 9.00, and several course nine seminar classes. I just think it's interesting to look at intelligence problems from an engineering perspective, because it lends insight on how the mind might work and on how engineering methods/approaches could be improved. I'm generally free on Mondays and Wednesdays from 12-1:30. As far as things like this go, I just like to have a fair amount of advanced notice, for planning purposes.