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1. What's wrong with Drexel? :)
2. Any particular region or topical focus? What do you mean by IS?
Schools that I frequently read papers by faculty members of, in no particular order: Rutgers, Pitt, Maryland, Syracuse, FSU, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA.
SUNY Albany ties theirs to public policy instead of library science. Hawai`i doesn't require classes if you can pass the exams (it's also where I'd like to get a faculty job). Georgia has a strong business focus.
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Re: Focus is a nexus of many interests. To summarize more or less succintly: NLP/cognitive models utilized for classification/evaluation/visualization in an agent-ish role to acquire and automate specialist tasks and knowledge.
Phew, that was a mouthful. Not even sure that's a good explanation, but hell, I've been trying to figure out my research interests for ages and this is an improvement.____I was for the war in Iraq on humanitarian grounds, and remain so. — MNS[ Parent ]
I'm not going to disrecommend Drexel, but NLP is not a strong suit here. The guy we have is great (I'm taking the one NLP class from him this summer), and has been in the field a long time, but he's just one guy. We're pretty good about the other stuff, though.
In New England (you're back in Bostonia, right, and not Nebraska?), there's really not a whole lot. Much of what you mentioned is happening at the AI Lab at MIT, of course, but my impression (and I could be wrong) is that they're kind of gearheaded about it, and don't really do a good job of treating IS as a social science. Bruce Croft in the CS dept at UMass Amherst is widely recognized in information retrieval; I've actually been asked a couple times why I left there to come here. Simmons is very library-focused; I won't say "stay away", because it's a good school, but I don't think they really share your interests. Also, you might be the wrong gender; I don't think they care for graduate admissions, but they might.
Rutgers is the closest general-purpose I-School. If you hit traffic right, you could be there in 4 hours, easy. Probably less. If you hit traffic wrong, it'll take you 8, though, so be careful. :)
If I were in your situation, I'd start by looking at the well-known schools (such as my list above), find the IS departments, find the faculty members interested in similar things as you, and look at what they're writing. Read their papers (often available through faculty member's personal web page, in gross violation of international copyright law). Read their backgrounds, and if their PhD was fairly recent, where's it from? Note who they're citing in the field, too, and google those people to find out where they are. Email them and ask about their work—faculty members love to talk about themselves!
I'd also email your former faculty at IU. There are kings of interdisciplinary cognitive science there; they'll know someone.
It's a long, arduous research process. But hey, you're trying to get a PhD. Get used to long, arduous research processes.
Seems almost close, but weak on NLP and nothing for the middle step of classification/evaluation/visualization.
I think I'm screwed.
(30 minutes of browsing later.) Yeah. Definately.
There's programs in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Informatics and all are close, but no cigar.____I was for the war in Iraq on humanitarian grounds, and remain so. — MNS[ Parent ]
You might not be best served by an MS from Pitt, but you're not screwed. It's worth noting that the PhD requirements will be different from MS at every school (I didn't bother to check Pitt's), and they may let you take grad level classes from other departments if someone else at Pitt is doing NLP or computational linguistics.
NLP is really astoundingly hard. Because of that, there aren't that many people doing it. I can ask my prof if you'd like to know what he considers a hotbed of NLP research (once Drexel fixes their mail server), but I have a feeling he's going to point to the AI Lab.
For the other three, check out the work of Xia Lin, and the other DU people he often collaborates with (especially Howard White, semi-retired, and Chaomei Chen). I don't care much for Dr Lin's teaching style (it involves quite a bit of powerpoint), but he's very knowledgeable.
If you'd thought of this a couple months ago, you could be coming here this year (they admit people up into september, but they probably wanted to see some hint that you were applying by July or so) and I wouldn't have been freaking out over the last 3 weeks trying to find a roommate. :)
The former caused me to re-evaluate my goals/interests, so there (here?) you are, unalterably inconvenienced.____I was for the war in Iraq on humanitarian grounds, and remain so. — MNS[ Parent ]
You and your "real life" crap.
From the Right Under My Nose dept: The CIS dept at UPenn is well-known for NLP/CL. Again, with that "C" in the dept name, there's going to be a tendency away from social science. This differs from the IS places that grew out of library schools (such as Drexel, Rutgers, Stanford, etc.) and should be taken into consideration. If you care what the users think, you're doing social science.
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