Project (CS 2731 / ISSP 2230)

Project Information

• Project description
• Guidelines for final evaluation, presentation, and report

Project Resources

Training Set

• Stories: /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/litman/public/cs2731/TrainingSet/
• Answer Key: /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/litman/public/cs2731/TrainingSet/answerkey.txt
• Tools: /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/litman/public/cs2731/Scripts/

Test Set 1 (made available 11/16)

• Stories and answer key in /afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/litman/public/cs2731/TestSet1/

Sample Reading Comprehension Q/A Papers

• Deep Read: A Reading Comprehension System
• Reading Comprehension Programs in a Statistical-Language-Processing Class
• A Rule-based Question Answering System for Reading Comprehension Tests
• A Machine Learning Approach to Answering Questions for Reading Comprehension Tests
• Analyses for Elucidating Current Question Answering Technology
• Automatic Multi-Layer Corpus Annotation for Evaluating Question Answering Methods: CBC4Kids
• Improving Question Answering for Reading Comprehension Tests by Combining Multiple Systems

Submission Instructions

Use the same instructions as for the homeworks. Please read these additional guidelines:

• If your program needs to be compiled in order to run, please compile it using any of the elements machines (you will have to do this for C, C++, Java for example). Please specify in the README which file we should run and on which machines. For scripting-like languages (Python) there is no need to provide a executable file, but do specify the version. If you do your project in Windows, make sure you send the EXE file and instructions on how to run it.
• If you use third party applications in your project (like POS taggers, named-entity recognizers), install them in your account under a public directory (so Roxana can access them when she runs your project) and use absolute paths when calling those applications (ex: (/afs/cs.pitt.edu/usr0/litman/public/cs2731/taggerV1.14/). Note that this applies only if you do your application in Linux using an elements machine. Also, when compiling the third party applications, again use the elements machines. If you do your project in Windows you will have to provide links on what to download and how to install.