Previously… on Technical English course: part 1 – formal writing style and utilizing a concordancer, part 2 – all about articles, and lastly, part 3 – all about choices and pronoun one.
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Technical English Course (part 3)
Previously… on Technical English course: part 1 – formal writing style and utilizing a concordancer and part 2 – all about articles.
Technical English Course (part 2)
Oh, it has been a while since I wrote the first part. I know, I have this tendency to start something then sometimes suddenly lose interest in continuing or finishing it ^^;. But no, I refuse to be like that anymore! *for the sake of the PhD study I’ve started :p* That’s why I will continue to write on this topic until the end.
When should I tell?
(source: taken from PhDcomics.com) Yeah… it should either be the night before or… never. But never seems impossible since there will be a project meeting while I’m away. Hmmmh… actually I plan to tell her after we submit the paper, “By the way, since we submit the paper already, I want to tell you that I have a plan to leave for vacation for two weeks. I hope you don’t mind.”. Will stick to that READ MORE
Main NLP/CL 2014 Conference Deadlines
Here is the list of deadlines for main Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Computational Linguistics (CL) conferences in 2014. Conference Submission Date Notification Date Conference Date Location ICML 2014 (cycle 1 submission) Oct 3, 2013 Dec 9, 2013 Jun 22-24, 2014 Beijing, China LREC 2014 Oct 15, 2013 Jan 31, 2014 May 28-30, 2014 Reykjavik, Iceland EACL 2014 (long paper) Oct 18, 2013 Dec 20, 2013 Apr 28-30, 2014 Gothenburg, Sweden EACL 2014 (short paper) READ MORE
Technical English Course (part 1)
While I’m still at my writing mood, I will try to share some knowledge I got from this cool course that I attended here: Technical English. It is basically a course to help the students improving their ability in academic scientific writing and delivering a presentation. No lesson about grammar was taught, instead we looked into the common grammar mistakes that people usually do in writing. I found this course really helpful, so… here I’m READ MORE
Paramita? or Paramita :)
So, after I finished my master thesis, and finally got my degree, my supervisor proposed to write a paper out of the thesis. I thought, why not? Some publications can always add more points to your CV. When it was time for the submission, I was in such a great dilemma regarding… my name! 😀 What should I put as my name?? FYI, I only have a single name, Paramita. No last name. In the READ MORE