ICT projects at UAIC Case study: the FII-NLP Group Dan Cristea Department of Computer Science Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

UAIC – FII 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

UAIC – FII 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

UAIC – FII 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

UAIC – FII 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

UAIC – FII Part of the NLP-FII group at a conference

UAIC – FII 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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