Inreach
DCLRS Seminar Series, CNGL and NCLT Seminar Series
The DCLRS seminar series, an international seminar series in computational linguistics, runs every Friday. DCLRS was hosted in DCU in 2007/8 and is hosted in TCD for 2008/9. The CNGL/National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT) seminar series takes place in DCU on Wednesdays. Both seminar series are aimed at CNGL, NCLT and other researchers and developers interested in language technologies. The seminars have approx. 30 attendees every week. A full list of speakers/presentations is the CNGL annual report.
The seminars are advertised on the website and via email each week.
Tutorials and Workshops
CNGL have run a number of tutorials and workshops in 2008 aimed at our researchers. If the topic is relevant to people outside of CNGL, we have invited other groups to participate in these: e.g. 10 members of the CLARITY CSET attended a CNGL workshop on graph-based mining of digital content. AA full list of speakers/presentations is the CNGL annual report.
Research Skills for Graduate Students
Prof. Julie Carson-Berndsen (UCD) organised a research skills course for graduate students within the School of Computer Science and Informatics in UCD as a pilot programme last semester. Two CNGL students took the course. The course is based on online materials and supplementary workshops. Prof. Carson-Berndsen is rolling it out across UCD this year and we are going to tailor it to CNGL graduate students.
Joint ICT-CSET Thesis award
CNGL are involved in a joint ICT-CSET Computer Science thesis award with the CLARITY, CTVR, DERI and Lero CSETs. The award will be given to the thesis that has made the most significant contribution to its field - whether computer science, software engineering or software related area. The winner will receive a prize of €2,500. CNGL are holding an internal competition to pick a Ph.D. thesis to represent CNGL in the joint ICT-CSET competition. All CNGL Post-Doctoral researchers, who had submitted their thesis in 2008, were eligible. The overall winner will be chosen in March 2009.
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Internal Communication
There are regular work package meetings, track area meetings and demonstrator workshops. CNGL have a regular Centre Management meeting every Tuesday as well as: o A bi-annual Scientific, Commercialisation and full CNGL meeting (Spring and Autumn) o An integration and IP committee every two months o An executive and E&O committee every three months
Internal and External Professional Development
Both CNGL staff and students take part in professional development activities in their host universities. The courses encompass orientation, library skills, research skills, entrepreneurship development, commercialisation and intellectual property management. These courses are run by the human resources departments, the various research and innovation units and CNGL. These courses help our students and researchers to acquire skills and knowledge for both personal development and career advancement. A full list of professional development activities is given in the appendix.
