Important Information & Links:

• IMPORTANT: Get your class account here. You absolutely need a class account to submit your assignments electronically.


• Here are the instructions for electronic submission of assignments:
  
  Instructions for electronic submission of assignments:
  
  1) Log in to your class account on dc.umd.edu
  2) run "~bd72340/bin/submit <assignment number> <file name>"
  
  For example, if you have a file named "homework1.txt" and you want to submit it as assignment #1, you would type: "~bd72340/bin/submit 1 homework1.txt"
  
  You can only submit a single file, not a directory.
  
  You can't submit a file that is larger than 64k, which should suffice.
  
  If you need to submit multiple files, please zip/tar them up and submit the compressed archive.
  
  If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at nmadnani@umiacs.umd.edu or waisbrot@cs.umd.edu
  


• Computational Linguistics Colloquium: There is a weekly colloquium hosted by the Laboratory for Computational Linguistics and Information Processing. You can find more information on that here: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/research/CLIP/colloq/index.html . All those interested please feel free to attend.

Basic instructions for posting to the newsgroup from terminals:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Type tin -q csd.compling at the prompt.




Figure 1. You should see something like this on the screen after a few seconds...

3. To post a new article, press "w".




Figure 2. Type the subject for the new article at the prompt...

4. Press Enter and the editor mode appears. The default editor is vi. If you are more comfortable with another editor (say pico), set an environment variable before step 1 as follows:
   
   
   • First, find out which shell you are running by typing ECHO $SHELL at the prompt.
   
   
   • If you are running tcsh, type setenv EDITOR /usr/local/bin/pico, or the path to your favorite editor.
   
   
   • If you are running bash, type export EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/pico, or the path to your favorite editor.
   
   
   
   
   Figure 3. Change your editor if needed...
   
5. Edit your article. When done, save and exit out of the editor. (You should know how to do this for your editor, whatever it may be). You will be asked if you want to post. Press:
   • p to post.
   • q to quit without posting.
   • o to postpone the article.
   • e to re-edit the article.
   
   To abort this article, exit without posting and say Y at the abort prompt.




Figure 4. Edit the article in your favorite editor..

6. If you want to post a follow-up to an already existing article, select the article by pressing ENTER at the main window of the news reader (Figure 1 above) and press f. Follow the same editing instructions as if posting a new article. If you want to send email to the poster (and only him/her), press r to do that and again, follow the same instructions.




Figure 5. Posting a follow-up is pretty much the same as posting a new article...

If you have any questions about this, feel free to email me at nmadnani@cs.umd.eduor post to the newsgroup..oh, wait...you can't :-)