CSCI 544 — Applied Natural Language Processing

D-clearance and waiting list

The course CSCI 544 — Applied Natural Language Processing has been oversubscribed in recent semesters, and therefore the department has instituted a prioritized waiting list for receiving D-clearance to enroll in the course.

CS Master’s students

D-clearance for CS Master’s students is handled by the department office. Please do not write to me asking to enroll in the course: I have no more information than the department office on which to base a decision, and therefore I will defer to the department’s priority list.

Exception: If you are a CS Master’s student working on a research project with a faculty advisor, and your advisor thinks that taking this class is needed for the project, please have your faculty advisor write to me to ask for D-clearance.

Other students

Undergraduate students, PhD students, and students from other departments who wish to register for the course should write to me. I will decide whether to give you D-clearance based on your academic background and interests.

I generally ask the department to give priority to Ph.D. students, and to place Master’s and undergraduate students on the priority list subject to the same criteria as CS Master’s students. If you are a Master’s or undergraduate student working on a research project with a faculty advisor, and your advisor thinks that taking this class is needed for the project, please have your faculty advisor write to me to ask for higher priority on the list.

Late registrations (during the add period)

As students register for the class, they are automatically added to Blackboard; this usually happens within a few hours after enrolling in the class. If you are enrolled in the class but not on Blackboard, please contact Blackboard help to resolve the issue. We do not add students manually to Blackboard.

After students are in Blackboard, we manually add them to the homework submission system (Vocareum). This can take a few days. Students who register late will be allowed to submit all the assignments they missed because of their late registration.

Completing assignments while on the waiting list

Students who are not registered for the course, including students on the waiting list, may view the recorded lectures and may subscribe themselves to the class message boards on Piazza. However, only registered students may submit assignments.

All students are individually responsible for viewing the recorded lectures and engaging regularly with the class message boards, and must submit their assignments on time. Students who register late will be allowed to submit all the assignments they missed because of their late registration.