I have been at the IIIT- Hyderabad since May 26, 2008. All it began as participation in the Summer School Camp there. There were students and faculties from various instituations like IIIT- Hyderabad, IIIT- Allahabad, IIT-Bombay, IITChennai, JNU, BHU, Indian Science Scool etc.
Overall it was a nice experience there. There were lectures and projects and presentation. There were lectures on parsing chunking and tagging. Some were easy to understand while others were extremely technical. Among the lectures, the one delivered by K.V. Subba Rao was a real treat to attend. The participants were the students of linguistics and computer sciences. As participants they were supposed to do a project under a mentor and present the same in the open symposium.
I, along with an M.A student from BHU, took a project called Comparison Of Dependency Parsers on English Sentences. Our mentor was Prashanth, a research scholar from IIIT-Hyderabad. Initially it was not a very entertaining project, however, later on when the time for presentation was approaching it transformed into a highly absorbing activity. We worked really hard and followed our own style of working. We stayed awakened the whole night on the eve of presentation. When our presentation was ready we had to share the time between us and we made a plan for it. Both of us were anxious as the presentations before us were really fantastic.
When the time came and we reached the stage Shailendra, my partner told me that he would not be able to speak anything without really stammering or collapsing. It was very late indeed. I decide to go ahead and deliver the entire presentation myself. When I climbed up the stage I realized that the paper we had prepared for the introduction also remained with. I felt it safe to admit that I was new in this field. I was happy and relieved when I saw that things were still going well. When the questions round came I wanted to curse that Italian Linguist, Leonard Laslo and Rajesh Bhatt Who teaches at Massachusetts University, Why they had to get interested into our presentation. But Lo they had some points to agree with. There was big relief when I came down the stage. It was my first presentation in Computational Linguistics (at IIIT-Hyderabad).
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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