Evelyn Richter |
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Dear Subscribers, The last year here at LINGUIST List has been a wonderful and challenging experience for me, full of opportunities to apply my knowledge, to bring in my ideas, and to constantly learn more. My special interest is in computational linguistics, but gaining any kind of practical programming experience was difficult before I arrived here. Within a few weeks at LINGUIST, however, I learned Cold Fusion, CSS and Javascript and wrote two parsers in Perl for the LINGUIST List Cookbook (http://linguistlist.org/cookbook/) and for checking about 200 language trees for MultiTree (http://multitree.linguistlist.org/). Today I am the intranet team leader. In this position, I can frequently apply my programming knowledge for fixes and expansions and can help my colleagues learn website programming and understand relational databases. While programming is certainly not equivalent to computational linguistics, the programming skills I have learned at LINGUIST are an essential basis in dealing with computational linguistic concepts and models in my PhD in the future. Editing is also part of my LINGUIST responsibilities. Many of us spend a considerable amount of our work time on editing incoming submissions, even during the weekends. As the dissertations and paper abstracts editor, I do not only correct spelling errors and check URLs, but I also classify submissions as best I can, so that the abstract you are looking for will be at your fingertips in just a simple search. Thus, editing has helped me become very thorough and detail-oriented, and it has increased my knowledge about language classification and the differentiation of linguistic subfields. Additionally, correspondence with submitters has improved my professional letter writing skills considerably which will definitely prove invaluable for my future career. I have ample reason to be deeply grateful for being able to work here at LINGUIST List. I would like to use this opportunity to thank Helen Aristar-Dry and Anthony Aristar who devote all their time and energy to training us and whose trust and encouragement have accompanied me through the past year here. At the same time, I would like to thank all of you for your submissions and your donations. Without your submissions and donations, LINGUIST List could not provide services for open information interchange in the linguistic community throughout the world. Without your submissions and donations, we students would not have the opportunities for academic and personal growth which we get here. Please donate today to help support us students for another year (https://linguistlist.org/donation/index.cfm). Sincerely, Evelyn Richter Dissertations/Papers Editor View Evelyn's personal page View Evelyn's hometown tour! |
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