Weekly Reports

Week 3 [9/10/18]: Finalized team, began research into ML topics. TG deliverables - Team Name, Team Outing

Week 4 [9/17/18]: Finalized team name, team advisor, Prof. Iyengar. TG deliverables - Customer Voice, Stakeholder table

Week 5 [9/24/18]: First meeting with Kevin Barresi. First meeting with Prof. Iyengar. TG deliverables - Mission Statement

Week 6 [10/1/18]: Second meeting with Kevin Barresi. Continued Research. TG Deliverables - Scope Statement

Week 7 [10/8/18]: Created Presentation for Senior Design Midterm. TG Deliverables - Presentation

Week 8 [10/15/18]: Meeting with Kevin Barresi. Began work on statistical/graph based single-document summarization algorithm. Gave presentation for Senior Design Midterm. TG Deliverables - Presentation

Week 9 [10/22/18]: Began work on TextRank summarization algorithm.

Week 10 [10/29/18]: Completed TextRank summarization algorithm. Began assembling list of additional features. TG Deliverables: Created Gantt Chart.

Week 11 [11/5/18]: Completed stemming/lemmatization step. Began researching methods of evaluation

Week 12 [11/12/18]: Found Rouge as method of evaluation

Week 13 [11/19/18]: Modified code to match formatting for use with Rouge

Week 14 [11/26/18]: Added multiple file implementation. TG Deliverables: Finished project charter

Week 15 [12/3/18]: Modified site for Milestone 2 presentation. TG Deliverables: Project charter, meeting documentation

Week 16 [12/10/18]: Gave final presentation, final meeting with Kevin before break.

***BREAK***

Week 17 [1/21/19]: Regrouped, continued research into multidoc. summarization.

Week 18 [1/28/19]: Selected clustering multidoc approach, began clustering implementation. TG Deliverable: Project abstract (draft)

Week 19 [2/4/19]: Finished clustering feature. Further defined feature list.

Week 20 [2/11/19]: Finished first prototype (ahead of schedule!)

Week 21 [2/18/19]: Cleaned up code. TG Deliverable: Elevator Pitch outline draft

Week 22 [2/25/19]: Improved sentence splitting using Spacy.

Week 23 [3/4/19]: Redid clustering algorithm using histogram method which does not require preset number of clusters. TG deliverable: Elevator Pitch Rough Draft

Week 24 [3/11/19]: Began work on getRepresentativeSentences and getClusterImportances. TG Deliverable: Elevator Pitch Final Draft

Week 25 [3/18/19]: Spring Break

Week 26 [3/25/19]: Finished getRepresentativeSentences and getClusterImportances TG Deliverable: Executive Summary

Week 26 [4/1/19]: Reincorporated getRepSentences and getClusterImportances into main code. TG Deliverable: Practiced for Elevator Pitch Dress Rehearsal

Week 27 [4/8/19]: Began looking into Rouge again to make optimizations. TG Deliverable: Pitch dress rehearsal, prep for Elevator Pitch Competition

Week 28 [4/15/19]: Finished looking into Rouge. TG Deliverable: Preliminary round of pitch competition - moved on

Week 29 [4/22/19]: Redid ordering of sentences in output. TG Deliverable: Semi-finals of pitch competition - made finals

Week 30 [4/29/19]: Expo prep, documentation and commenting code. TG Deliverable: Prepping for final round of pitch competition