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Public Presentations by Candidates for replacing Prof Hinrichs

16 October 2024

Public Presentations by Candidates for replacing Prof Hinrichs

Hey all,

Thursday, the 17th of October and Friday, the 18th of October, the short-listed candidates to replace Prof Hinrichs will hold short presentations followed by questions from students.

The first presentation will be held at 9:00 AM in room 110 in Keplerstraße 2.

If you’re interested in seeing who we invited and in shaping the future of the department or just love (computational) linguistics, do show up!

There will be three presentations on Thursday and three on Friday.

The first presentation on Friday will start at 9:00 AM in room 110 in Keplerstraße 2.

Sorry for the late update,

Nicolai/Fachschaft

Pre-Course — Orientation For New GL/CL Students

20 September 2024

Kick-start your studies with our 5-day orientation event!

The pre-course is an opportunity for incoming General and Computational Linguistics students to get a first introduction to their degree through talks, guided workshops, and tours held by students from the Fachschaft.

Schedule

Date Time Content
Mon, 7. Oct 12-2pm • Official start of the precourse
• Introduction to Computational Linguistics (slides)
• Intro to General Linguistics (slides)
• Informal meet-up with Pizza
Tue, 8. Oct 12-2pm • Overview of the program structure & Information about 1st semester courses (slides)
• Overview of the university platforms (slides)
• How to sign up for courses & Overview of language courses (slides)
Wed, 9. Oct 12-2pm • Gentle introduction to programming (slides)
• Computer setup for your studies
• Introduction to Git, command line, and debugging (slides)
Thu, 10. Oct 12-2pm in-class sessions
2~4pm tour		 • Setting-up programming tools - Java, Python, Visual Studio Code (slides) (JavaTest) (PythonTest)
• Tour of the city
Fri, 11. Oct 12-2pm in-class sessions
2~4pm tour		 • Info on Generative AI use (slides)
• Living in Tübingen
• Q&A Session
• Optionally finish setting-up programming tools
• Tour of the campus

Schedule subject to change.

Please bring a laptop (+ charger) if you want to set up programming tools with us.

ALL students (both GL and CL) are strongly recommended to obtain a laptop for their studies NOW - e.g. there are mandatory programming courses scheduled for the first semester of the Bachelors.

Location

The pre-course will take place in the Neuphilologikum, also called Brechtbau, room 037. When you enter through the main door from Wilhelmstraße, immediately go left and you will eventually see the room number sign to your right.

Stay up to date!

Please fill out the form below to let us know you are coming.

Keep an eye on our website and join the GL/CL group chat for any updates.

Questions? Enter them in the following form:

Statistics Pre-midterm Workshop

12 June 2024

Prepare for the upcoming Methods II: Statistics midterm with our workshop!

What is the plan?

  • Warm up quiz
  • General recap
  • Q&A session

When?

Saturday, June 15 - Time will be either 10 AM - 2 PM or 2PM - 5PM. Let us know about your preference by filling out this Sign-up form

Where?

Seminar room 035 at Brechtbau.

Why Attend?

  • We will focus on the following materials from the course: “Basics of statistics”, “Regression”.
  • We will summarise various regression models.
  • The workshop does not cover how to deal with specific things in R (loading data, removing outliers, etc.)

Let us know that you are coming!

The room has a limited capacity so please make sure to fill out the signup form to let us know that you are coming, so we can save you a seat! Of course if there should be a higher demand, we can get more chairs

Stay Connected!

Join the Whatsapp community for CL & GL.

Game Night

13 May 2024

GameNight

Hey everyone!

Game nights are back!

📆Tuesday (14th of May)

⏰️18:15 (you can also join anytime later)

📍room 035 in Brechtbau

Feel free to bring some drinks and snacks, and most importantly, some games!

We’ll be happy to see you there, everyone is welcome :))

R Workshop

14 April 2024

Kick-start your summer semester studies with our two day workshop about a pirates favourite programming language - R.

What sort of questions does this workshop cover?

  • What is R and why you should care
  • How do I install and run R
  • What is a dataframe
  • How to work with vectors and matrices
  • If I wanted the graph to be blue instead of red, how would I do that

When?

  • Wednesday, October 17th 1PM-5PM - Introduction to R, help with installation, basic syntax, tools, techniques
  • Thursday, October 18th 10AM-2PM - Data analysis walk-through, pre-processing, plotting and more

Where?

Seminar room 035 at Brechtbau.

Why Attend?

  • Discover the exciting world of doing statistics with R (totally not sarcastic nope not me neverrr)
  • Prepare for Methods II: Statistics and any Hauptseminar that uses R
  • Get a refresher on the basics, for those who already dabbled but perhaps have forgotten
  • And last but not least something of a more serious note: Methods II: Statistics is a part of your orientation exam which you have to pass before your third semester ends, but it is offered only in the summer semester. Meaning that you really want to pass on the first try, otherwise you might need to prolong your studies. (Please as always, consult the Module handbook and the Examination Regulation.)

Let us know that you are coming!

The room has a limited capacity so please make sure to fill out the signup form to let us know that you are coming, so we can save you a seat! Of course if there should be a higher demand, we can get more chairs

Stay Connected!

Join the Whatsapp group chat specifically made for this workshop!

C u @ our R cruise