On 12/11 you will present a research paper to the class. In order to do this you should read a computational linguistics paper ublished in the last 5 years. Example venues include: ACL conferences: ACL, NAACL, EACL, EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), CoNLL (Conference on Natural Language Learning), see http://aclweb.org/anthology/; other conferences: COLING, IJCNLP ("Asian ACL"); and journals: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Engineering, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing.
You will present the main ideas in class. This includes a 3 minute presentation followed by 2 minutes for questions from the class. You should also listen to your classmates' presentations and ask them thoughtful questions.