The research project is an in-depth activity that will be carried out in teams of five. The project can be on any aspect of natural language processing. You will formulate a research question, identify resources and tools to address the question, implement and evaluate a system that uses these resources and tools, present your project as a poster, and write up a report.
The project must involve the use of real-world natural language data, and must include some interesting or non-trivial components. For example: use of multiple or low-resource languages; creation of a new dataset; achieving state-of-the-art performance on an existing dataset; or something else that is interesting or non-trivial.
You must submit your code by putting it on a repository (such as GitHub or Bitbucket) and making the link accessible to the instructional staff, at least for the duration of the class (you may choose to make it public or private).
Your code may use external, publicly available tools and resources, but only ones that you are able to provide when you submit your code.
By September 20: Form project teams of five (link to spreadsheet will be made available on Piazza)
September 20–29: Initial discussion of the project with your assigned TA.
October 4: Project proposal due (one page)
November 3: Project status report due
November 29–December 1: Poster presentations (in class)
December 1: Final report due
December 3: Self-evaluation due; summaries and peer-grading forms for 8 student posters due
Form project teams of five and put them on the team selection sheet (link available on Piazza)
Each team will be assigned a TA who is the primary contact for their project.
Check in with your TA regularly (check-ins can be via email/piazza or in person/on Zoom, whichever works best):
One conversation before you develop your proposal
One check-in or demo when you have some working code
One check-in when you have results and are ready to prepare your presentation and report
Other check-ins as necessary.
Submit your proposal, submit your status report, present a poster your work, and submit your report by the respective deadlines.
10% Proposal
10% Status report
10% Poster presentation
10% Self-evaluation
60% Final report