thesis timeline

now - review literature, write review notes or articles
- exercise tools: NLTK, LKB, FrameNet
- dialog with Tim and Steven on 2-3 mini-proposals
- work with Larmie on Cebuano dictionary
- work with SIL on collaboration
- do something with CSLI Verb Semantics Ontology
- improve programming skills: Java, Python, XML, XSLT, Javascript, CSS

upon receiving offer
- put books in order
- arrange visa
- arrange local phase out, consider setting date or possible deferment to Feb 2010
- correspond with other PhD students
- start zeroing in on potential early work and narrow range of topic
- systematically review literature, write it up generically

Month 1
- settle into Linguistic Exploration
- make short term plan with Tim based on this
- read agreed reading list, do agreed tasks
- audit selected coursework for sem 1
Month 3
- submit first draft of confirmation proposal, have an initial draft of proposal-specific lit review
Month 5
- second draft of confirmation proposal
- audit selected coursework sem 2
Month 7
- confirmation
- set out quarterly milestones until Progress Report
- present work-in-progress at conference every quarter
Month 12
- audit selected coursework sem 3
Month 18
- complete progress report, see if it can be submitted early
- have 2/3 of 80,000 word thesis in rough draft: about 54,000 words or 140 pages.
- intensive write up for 3 months, 1000 words a day at least 4 days a week
- start looking for post-docs
- audit selected coursework sem 4
Month 21
- submit first draft of thesis for examination
- schedule examination
- make formal presentation to department
- refine search for post-docs
Month 24
- examination
- graduation
- look for book publisher
Month 26-30
- postdoc, possibly still at Melbourne
- consider moving to Taiwan, Stanford, DFKI
Month 36
- publish book from thesis
- maintain at least 4 papers a year