ICT projects at UAICCase study: the FII-NLP Group

Dan CristeaDepartment of Computer Science

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasidcristea@info.uaic.ro

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Research in “A.I.Cuza”• The multidisciplinary research departments • The research departments at the faculty levels• The Research Office at the Rector

– specialized in FP (and other types of) projects– what these gentlemen have presented today is already

common knowledge in this office

– LEAR (Legal Entity Appointed Representative)– an administrative structure well established, PIC, etc.– entitled to do coordination, international audit,

financial issues covered– advertise internal and international calls, deadlines

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The NLP Group at FII• FP5:

– Balkanet – one of the first projects in the University: a network of aligned lexical thesauri for Balkan languages

• FP6: – LT4eL: Language Technology for eLearning

• INTAS (coordinator):– RoLTech. Platform for Romanian Language Technology:

Resources, Tools and Interfaces

• FP7 (running): – CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology

Infrastructure– ALEAR: Artificial Language Evolution in Autonomous Robots

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Working in a group

• People• permanent didactic staff• permanent researchers in faculty departments• PhD students, sometimes – master • administrative staff

• Each PhD student is assigned to one project• The project the student is assigned to is on the line

of her thesis• open PhD positions immediately after the start of the

project• accept/propose projects in which your team is expert

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The Round-Robin supervision • Each student is visited at least once a week

– but: leave them some degrees of freedom– do not exploit them

• They should have the feeling of belonging to the Group– enrol in competitions to play under the colours of the

University– they go to main conferences and project meetings (NLP-FII:

between 2 and 4 international participations each)– make them feel good together

• Their work is appreciated• Give them formative responsibilities

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The permanent renew• Nothing is stable or for ever

– Try to avoid conflicts: • a good team could be easily destabilised by a bizarre

personality

– Replace the ones who leave• be happy if they ask you for recommendations; they will

spread in the world good words about their school of origin

– Get new people aboard by: • courses & term projects • final grade projects/papers• master programmes in the domain • summer schools

The EUROLAN series of summer schools in

Natural Language Processing

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Thank you for your attention