Course Project
There are four options for the project:
- A community task. This project could use any publically
available materials developed for some of the papers discussed in
class, where you try to beat the current results. You can also try to
beat prior work using your own data, or my data. For example, some
ITSPOKE data is publically available via the PSLC, and you can also
get other data from me. Chris Schunn is willing to make his
multi-party student team dialogues available (10/23 optional
paper).
- Implement and evaluate an algorithm that performs some type
of spoken or natural language processing, motivated by a social/interactional
application. You may wish to use some of the data that is available for the community task project type, but in a new way.
- Use linguistic knowledge to enhance a social/interactional
application system. Processing may be fully automatic, or your system
may take manual annotations as input.
- A corpus annotation project. This type of project must be
done in pairs. It will involve developing annotation instructions,
gathering or using a corpus, performing a training round of
annotation, discussing the results with each other, revising the
annotation instructions, and then annotating a fresh test set.
Inter-coder reliability should be reported (percentage agreement and
Kappa). The amount of data annotated need not be large.
All of the following deadlines must be met to receive
credit on the project, with all written materials
submitted electronically using Blackboard:
- Late September/Early October: Meet with me to discuss your project ideas
before writing your
proposal. Your project should be non-trivial and interesting, yet
feasible given the time frame.
- October 16: Submit a written project proposal.
- November 15: Submit a written project progress report.
- December 11 (Note Change!): First draft of your project paper is due,
using the NAACL 2013 proceedings
format for short papers.
- December 13: The final version of your paper is due.
Students will also give oral project presentations.
Projects can be done in small groups (pairs are ideal),
although I am willing to consider individual projects or
teams larger than two if the project can support it.
Note that if you are ambitious and choose carefully, you might be able
to submit your final paper to a relevant venue (e.g the NAACL
deadline is December 10).