Copy of the letter sent the end of 18 April 2004,
by Bob Futrelle, to a large Linguistics Program
mailing list:

Based on discussions at yesterday's end-of-the-term party for
the NU Linguistics Program, it's clear that there's a lot
of interest in computational linguistics among the students.

So I've started a site here:

  http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle/nlpgroup/

I need to know from everybody, how we should proceed with this.
We talked about getting a seminar going in which we could read
about, present and discuss NLP topics.  

I'll set up a mailing list, with archives for it too.
A couple of questions about that:

First, mailings *to* the list will be for members only, but
membership is simple. I'll handle the membership requests from you.

Question 1: Should the mailing list archives be private or public?
An example of public archives, for a class, is here:

  https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/pipermail/isu535-sp04-rpf/

Question 2: Should the mailing list addresses be available to all members?

My answer to the above is tentatively, yes. The second item is
easy to turn on and off.

In case anyone is wondering why I'm jumping in on this,
I published my first paper on NLP in 1962 and one of my
most recent NSF grants, ending last Fall, was for NLP
research.  If you look at my bionlp.org site, you'll also
see that I'm pretty deeply into the subject (also linked
on the new nlpgroup site):

  http://www.bionlp.org

Hopefully, this will be the last "spam" from me on this
topic. Further developments will be posted on the site.

 -- Bob Futrelle
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Robert P. Futrelle      | Biological Knowledge Laboratory
   Associate Professor  | College of Computer  and Information
                        |     Science MS 161CN
Office: (617)-373-4239  | Northeastern University
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         http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle
  http://www.bionlp.org   http://www.diagrams.org
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