Re: OT: Utterly shameless self-promotion

Congratulations! Do you intend to work in the private field or to
pursue an academic career?


On 5/20/06, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> Having been ordered by several who wish me all the best to beat my own
> drum more, I hereby announce that I've finished my Master's degree in
> Computational Linguistics. Since Master's degrees are a new animal in
> Norway I have no idea how mine measures up to international ones. A
> normal Master here is a two year run/course/study, with (nominally) one
> year of taking classes and one year of research/writing a thesis. I've
> yet to meet anyone who have managed it in only two years though. The old
> system would have given me a cand. philologiae instead of an M-something
> to go with my name.
>
> It's not of particular interest to conlangers AFAIK, being about machine
> translation of compounds and the use of search engines (like Google and
> Yahoo! Search) in linguistics; the funniest part to research was the
> search engine stuff. The dream would of course have been to study
> typology but that isn't really done much at my uni. (If anyone *do* want
> to study typology I suggest the university in Leipzig, Germany; that's
> where Bernard Comrie and several other typology greats are teaching/
> researching these days.)
>
>
> t., who thinks studying is much easier than job-hunting
>