How to get a little extra credit...

Students always ask me about extra credit opportunities at the end of the semester.  This is your opportunity to be pro-active.  The CL lab here has a regular colloquium series, which has a shared calendar here.  Roughly every other week we have an external speaker coming through.  The first few are Roger Levy (psycho/cognitive computational linguistics from UCSD), William Cohen (machine learning and information extraction, CMU) and Eugene Charniak (parsing and everything else NLP, Brown). (Eugene is actually my great-grand-advisor!).  I highly encourage all of these talks, and they should all be quite different.  We'll have more folks posted on the schedule as the semester moves on.  At any rate, if you go to the talk, and write a "response" that's approximately one page long, I'll give you some extra credit.  You'll get (up to) 3 points (one homework) for the first one you do, (up to) 2 points for the second and third, and 1 point for the fourth and fifth.  That's 9 points of possible extra credit.  You won't get further credit for more than five, but of course I encourage you to keep going to the seminars :).