FS Meeting: Preparing activities for the winter semester

Hey everyone,

Our first meeting concerning the upcoming winter semester was yesterday. The main topic was how to offer covid-appropriate alternatives to our usual beginning-of-the-semester activities. This is the short summary of the meeting, the long version is in our Telegram group (let us know if you’d like to join!).

1. Digital activities for the upcoming semester: digital Ersti (first semester student) café, either combined with or in addition to digital ‘speed friending’ (get to know your future classmates in small groups at a time).
2. Buddy programme: Can we find enough interested ‘old’ students who would like to participate in a buddy programme for new students?
3. Office hours: If possible, we’d like to organize digital Fachschaft office hours next semesters so that you all can easily contact us with questions or concerns about your studies.
4. Discord server: We’re planning to set up a Discord server (or something similar) for new students.
5. Transparency about meetings: We decided to share more information about our meetings, and you can already see the results here :-)
6. Hiring new professors: Two Fachschaft members are part of the hiring committee for a new linguistics professor, and they gave us a summary of how this works.

Do you have suggestions for activities for SfS students in the new semester? Would you like to help out with organizing the activities mentioned above? Or would you like to join future meetings to get involved in the decisions the Fachschaft makes, or just to get a better impression of what we do exactly and how? Get in touch with us (nwsinf1 AT uni-tuebingen DOT de); we’d love to hear from you!

Enjoy the summer break and good luck with your term papers/projects!

– The Fachschaft

Summer semester 2020 (again)

Hey everyone,

We added a page where we collect information on semester opening meetings and classes offered at the SfS (and by the computer science department): fs-linguistics.github.io/courses-sose2020/.
It contains some additional information to our previous post and will be updated in case we find out more.

– The Fachschaft

Summer semester 2020

Hey everyone,

We hope you are all doing well.

We don’t know much more than you do about what the upcoming semester will look like. What we know is that it will take place, starting next week with online classes, since a lot of people cannot come to Tübingen or even Germany for the foreseeable future.
Make sure to regularly check Alma, Moodle and Ilias to get the most up-to-date information on the classes you’re interested in taking. The university and the SfS have some more information on how this semester will take place:

• Semester opening meeting (ISCL): Starting on 2PM of April 14th, you can join this Moodle version of the introductory meeting: https://moodle.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de/enrol/index.php?id=836
• Course list (General Linguistics): The course list for the summer semester can be accessed via the red box on the lower right-hand side of https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/neuphilologie/seminar-fuer-sprachwissenschaft
• Course list (Computer Science): The Fachschaft Informatik compiled a list of computer science classes with information on how they will take place. The list includes several NLP/ML courses that might be interesting for ISCL students who still need to fill their Supplementary Area modules (ask your advisor whether the classes you’d like to take will be recognized by the SfS!) https://www.fsi.uni-tuebingen.de/covid19/vorlesungen
• Course list (Machine Learning): The ML department also has a list of the courses they offer this semester with links to the course webpages and information on how they are offered. Many of these courses might be interesting for ISCL students who still need to fill their Supplementary Area modules (ask your advisor whether the classes you’d like to take will be recognized by the SfS!) https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/175740
• Official university information on the summer semester: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/university/information-on-the-corona-virus/corona-virus-information-for-students/
• While there are no in-person office hours right now, you can still contact your study advisors and other SfS staff via email.

We hope you had a nice holiday and are staying safe!

– The Fachschaft

EDITED on 2020-04-13 to add the link to the computer science courses.

EDITED on 2020-04-17 to add the link to the ML courses.

End-of-Semester Regulars’ Table

Dear general & computational linguists,

Good luck with the upcoming exams and final projects!

Once the exam phase is over, we want to celebrate with you! Join us for the last regulars’ table before the beginning of the lecture-free period 🎉
It will take place at Neckarmüller on Friday, February 7, at 8 PM.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
– The Fachschaft

Chomsky or Chimpsky? The results are in!

Dear all,

Thanks for joining us at the Christmas party!

Here are the results from the partygoers’ donations:

• 43% for loving Nim Chimpsky and avoiding linguistics fights
• 32% for following Chomsky & generativism
• 25% for opposing Chomsky & generativism

A big thank you to all of you who donated a bit of their money and/or time to help us!

Happy holidays and enjoy the break! ❄