Final Report

The final report gives the full details of your research project, including motivation, method, results, and implications. It is written in the form of an academic paper. Space is limited, so concentrate on the important aspects of your work.

The report should be written in English using your best academic style, on 4 pages with 11-point font, 1-inch margins (templates will be provided); a 5th page is allowed only for references and division of labor. The report should include the following components.

• Title for the project.

• Introduction: motivation of the specific problem that the project addresses.

  • The problem 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.

  • The report should describe the problem and explain why it is interesting or challenging.

• Related work: a short survey of relevant prior studies.

  • The report should describe what existing work has been done, and how your contribution relates to that.

  • If the work is related to something you have done in the past, explain how the current work extends it.

• Method, including:

  • Materials such as a specific corpus of language data used, and any existing annotations of the data.

  • Procedure for processing your data, including algorithms, features, tools, and any annotations you carried out (if needed).

  • Design of your models or algorithms, and training and inference details.

  • Well-known models do not need to be explained, but you do need to explain how you use them. For example, if your project uses transformers, the report doesn't need to explain what a transformer is, but it does need to explain how you train or tune it.

• Experimental setup, including datasets, baseline methods, and evaluation protocols.

• Results and discussion.

• Division of labor between the teammates (on 5th page).

• References cited (on 5th page).

Submit the report as a PDF file using the “Final Report” assignment on Blackboard. Make sure that it is in PDF format (with other formats like Word, Blackboard sometimes messes up the pagination).