Ted Pedersen - Undergraduate Research Opportunities (UROP) Page

Undergraduate Research Opportunities (UROP)

The UROP program is a great way for UMD undergraduates to get involved in research, and make a little extra money in the process. I am always willing to sponsor UROP projects, and would be happy to discuss any ideas that you might have.

Below you can find some information about previous UROP projects I have sponsored. I think there are still lots of interesting things that can be done with these projects, and I'd be very happy if a student would want to extend or continue one of these projects.

I am particularly interested in projects that take advantage of the APIs that are now being provided by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. In addition, I have some ideas for projects that revolve around some of the packages that we've worked on here at UMD. Most of these involve dealing with automatically determining the meaning of words and sentences in text. You can see some general information about those projects here

Please contact me at tpederse AT d umn edu if you find anything on this page interesting, or if you have another idea for a UROP!

Previous UROP Projects:

Spring 2005 - Advanced Search Tools for Online Resources (Justin Chase)

Proposal
Final Report
Justin's project was featured on the Google Code Home in May 2005.

Spring 2003 - Translate the News of the World! (Brian Rassier)

Summer 2002 - Alpaco - An Alignment Tool for Parallel texts (Brian Rassier)

Proposal
Final Report
Download Alpaco! (a Perl/Tk application)

Spring/Fall 2002 - Latin American Registry (Brian Rassier)

Technically speaking this was not a UROP since it was funded by other sources, but we conducted the project as if it was.

Visit the Registry!
Download Registry source code or view the README.

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu