Questionnaire on CL education

1. What is the name of your University?
   

2. Which name describes closest the name of your department? Computational linguistics Linguistics Computer science Humanities computing Native language (e.g. German department in Germany) Foreign language (e.g. German department in Spain) None of the above
   Other:

3. Which name describes best the faculty where your department is located? Humanities (or Arts, Philosophy, Language and Literature) Social sciences Engineering Math and sciences There are no faculties None of the above
   Other:

4. Is CL offered at undergraduate level: As a computational linguistics degree As an option or specialization in another subject As a joint degree with another subject: As some courses in another subject

5. Is CL offered at masters level: As a computational linguistics degree As an option or specialization in another subject As a joint degree with another subject: As some courses in another subject

6. If your department offers a full degree or specialization in CL, what is your approximate yearly number of new students starting on this degree or specialization?

7. What is the proportion of women among your CL students? 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%

8. How many staff members are teaching CL? Total expressed as full-time units:

9. In which country is your institution located? AustriaBelgiumDenmarkFinland FranceGermanyGreeceIceland IrelandItalyLuxembourgThe Netherlands NorwayOther...Portugal SpainSwedenSwitzerlandUK
   Other:

10. Which core topics are offered?
    Introduction to linguistics
    Formal grammars
    Parsing algorithms
    Representation of lexical knowledge
    Formal semantics
    Pragmatics techniques
    Symbolic computation (Lisp, Prolog...)
    Mathematics and logic
    State of the art grammar formalisms
    Artificial intelligence
    Others: (A new line for each)
    

11. Which application-oriented topics are offered?
    Machine translation
    Information retrieval
    Computer-assistance language learning
    NL interfaces
    Others: (A new line for each)
    

12. What is the proportion of teaching methods used?
    Lectures 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Discussion groups 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Individual exercises and projects 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Group projects involving computer work 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Web courses 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Enter the URLs: (A new line for each)
    
    Other teaching methods 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Other teaching methods: (A new line for each)
    

13. What is the proportion of the following learning activities?
    Listening to lectures 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Doing exercises on paper 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Using ready-made computer tools 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Writing programs 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Other learning activities 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Other learning activities: (A new line for each)
    

14. Where do graduates go to?
    Academia 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%
    Industry 0%10%20%30%40%50% 60%70%80%90%100%

15. Which are the main programming languages used in teaching?
    Prolog
    Lisp
    Java
    C and C++
    Other languages: (A new line for each)
    

16. Which are the main platforms used in teaching?
    Linux
    Unix
    Mac
    Windows on PC
    Other platform:

17. Which main textbooks are used for introductory courses in CL?
    Please use a new line for each.
    

18. Which ready-made tools and resources are used in teaching?
    Grammar tools for the Mac (Linguistic Instruments)
    LFG workbench (Xerox)
    PC-Kimmo
    Wordnet
    Corpora
    Other tools developed at your site: Please use a new line for each.
    
    Other ready made tools: Please use a new line for each.
    

19. Which is your main language of instruction? Danish German Greek English Spanish Finnish French Italian Dutch Portuguese Swedish Bulgarian Czech Estonian Georgian Hungarian Icelandic Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Romanian Russian Slovakian Other language
    Other language:

20. Which languages are the targets of processing?
    Danish
    German
    Greek
    English
    Spanish
    Finnish
    French
    Italian
    Dutch
    Portuguese
    Swedish
    Bulgarian
    Czech
    Estonian
    Georgian
    Hungarian
    Icelandic
    Latvian
    Lithuanian
    Norwegian
    Polish
    Romanian
    Russian
    Slovakian
    Other languages: (A new line for each)
    

21. How many students are currently enrolled in the degree program?

22. How many of these students are this year taking part of their education abroad?

23. How many visiting/exchange students from abroad do you have this year?

24. Does the degree require an obligatory traineeship/placement? YesNo

25. Which kind of innovations in the education of CL are you considering in your department or hoping for will come in the near future?
    Please use a new line for each.
    

26. What is your position?

27. What is your email address?

28. What is the name and address to which we will send a book containing the results?
    Name:
    Address:

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