@conference {13739,
	title = {Combining open-source with research to re-engineer a hands-on introductory NLP course},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics},
	series = {TeachCL {\textquoteright}08},
	year = {2008},
	month = {2008///},
	pages = {71 - 79},
	publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
	organization = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
	address = {Stroudsburg, PA, USA},
	abstract = {We describe our first attempts to re-engineer the curriculum of our introductory NLP course by using two important building blocks: (1) Access to an easy-to-learn programming language and framework to build hands-on programming assignments with real-world data and corpora and, (2) Incorporation of interesting ideas from recent NLP research publications into assignment and examination problems. We believe that these are extremely important components of a curriculum aimed at a diverse audience consisting primarily of first-year graduate students from both linguistics and computer science. Based on overwhelmingly positive student feedback, we find that our attempts were hugely successful.},
	isbn = {978-1-932432-14-5},
	url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1627306.1627318},
	author = {Madnani,Nitin and Dorr, Bonnie J}
}
