COLING 2002 in Taiwan

In August 2002, I went to the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002) in Taipei, Taiwan. This was my first time attending COLING, and when I arrived I knew absolutely no one there. But I soon made friends with a bunch of other students, some of whom even knew Mandarin and/or Taiwanese. During the hours when we weren't diligently listening to presentations, we got a good sampling of Taipei's beautiful and intriguing attractions. Here are some of the pictures I took, and some I got from friends...

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Thanks to Google for sending me on this trip (our presentation went over very well), and a million thanks to Michael, Vivian, and the "orange girls" for being such excellent interpreters and guides.

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• Academia Sinica (2 pictures)
• views from my hotel (2 pictures)
• shopping at a night market (4 pictures)
• National Palace Museum (1 picture)
• Yangmingshan National Park (14 pictures)
• mopeds (3 pictures)
• Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall (1 picture)
• group photos on my last day (6 pictures -- thanks to Trinity for sending me the last four!)