Written by Alexander Raginsky 
Now that the summer is moving to its end, let’s recall how we, the graduate students of the NLP community, have spent it. Apart from some travelling thanks to the attendance of various great conferences such as NAACL-HLT in Atlanta, GA, in the beginning of June or ACL in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the beginning of
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
We continue supporting the Coursera.org initiatives providing access to world-class educational courses. Few weeks ago we published a review of the Columbia University course on the Natural Language Processing and got positive feedback from our readers. Now it is time to present another course called “Introduction to Data Science” taught by Professor Bill Howe (University
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Written by Alexander Raginsky 
Globalization rules the world. Nowadays studying Ph.D in one country, doing post-doc in another one and working in the third country will hardly surprise anyone. However changing the place is not an easy step. It brings new experience but may require mind flexibility to adapt to a foreign country and its people. We asked Muntsa Padró,
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Thanks to the Internet, the world has become a huge mountain of data convertible into insightful knowledge for decision making and conclusion drawing. We are living in interesting time: the amount of available information is growing exponentially, so do the methods used to process the data but, probably, at a slower pace. Industrial users have
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
We are in the middle of a paradigm shift, probably the biggest in history. The higher education system is changing. Education is becoming free and accessible for anybody who has a computer with Internet access. Coursera.org is the first resource providing access to free online classes from the leading universities worldwide. Many of the classes
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
As you are here, you probably already know that Natural Language Processing, along with Data Mining and Machine Learning are quickly developing areas of Computer Science. NLPPeople.com is a job market portal for NLP industry that allows you to search through hundreds of active job openings in language technology and related areas. NLPPeople.com informs our readers
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
Data mining is a relatively new field and a quickly developing area of Computer Science. Data science is a complex discipline. It is based on business analytics and statistics, includes elements of business strategic planning, applied computer science and is operated by formal math methods. The talent in data mining is scares since
Written by Alexander Raginsky 
We continue to publish the guides on career selection. The first two guides (part 1 and part 2) were dedicated to move from academia to industry. Now we are presenting the opposite direction guide. The economic downturn has been hard on just about everyone, even those hoping to find work outside of the traditional
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Rodolfo Maslias is Greek and studied languages and law in Greece, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg. He worked as translator at the European Parliament since 1981 and since 2008 he is heading the Terminology Coordination Unit. He taught translation at the Ionian University of Corfu and Multilingualism and Terminology at the University of Luxembourg. He was
