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Larger co-ordinated efforts are needed to:
- Attract larger student numbers.
- Bundle scarce teaching competencies.
- Develop innovative pedagogical resources.
- Promote mobility through international recognition of credits and commonly
agreed degree requirements.
- Traditional barriers between the humanities and science/engineering must
be lowered through the promotion of interdisciplinary programmes of study
such as CL.
- Links between education and research need to be strengthened.
- Lifelong learning needs to take place.
- Teaching staff should be increased and freed to participate in
co-ordinated activities that enhance the student learning experience as well
as the value of their qualifications.
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Specific Recommendations
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- There is a need for new researchers in CL.
- The capacity for CL education needs to be increased.
- An increase in the number of highly competent teaching staff at
institutions offering CL is needed.
- CL educators need to maintain a balance between theoretical and practical
concerns.
- General linguistics and language studies should begin to integrate CL
modules into their curricula.
- CL and speech processing need to co-operate in building links to industry.
- The summer schools and courses organised by ELSNET, FOLLI and others need
to continue.
- The involvement of learned societies such as the EACL in educational
matters should be fostered through international special interest groups.
- The CL community should establish international degrees in CL. In such
cases certification and accreditation will be important, as it has been for
the International Masters in Language and Speech in which ESCA and EACL have
been involved.
- Internationally funded RTD programmes should continue to support projects
for the development of advanced teaching tools for CL.
- Future research projects in CL should be explicitly required to make their
results available for educational reuse.
- At the level of the institution, group work and project-based education
should become more prevalent in CL and CAL tools should be made available to
their students.
- Institutions for higher education should consider open and distance
learning schemes and life-long learning in CL.
- Reforms in CL education not be limited to the level of higher education.
It is necessary to initiate wide preparatory measures at other levels of
education. Awareness raising and competence raising measures in secondary
education can for instance take the form of job orientation with respect to
the language industries and the integration of NLP tools in grammar teaching
and foreign language teaching.
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Based on the work done by the Computational Linguistics Working Group from
ACO*HUM during
the years 1997-2000.
Responsible author: Andy Way 16.10.2000
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