CSSE490-NLP: Project Proposal

• Specifications for the written proposals are as follows.
  • It should be about two pages pages long (single spaced).
  • It should have a tentative title (can be catchy)
  • There should be two parts to your proposal:
    • A concise description of the problem you want to solve or the question you want to address. Give a one sentence description first and then elaborate in the two or three paragraphs. Feel free to add diagrams if they help in explaining your proposal. As part of this part, also give the reader a quick sense of how you plan to solve the problem, i.e. the approach you plan to take.
    • An initial review of prior work in your chosen area. Please use the web to locate papers and work in the area, and at least read the abstracts, in order to get a sense of the work that has been done. You also need to address how your work builds on the prior work or how it extends it. You will briefly explain (one sentence) the shortcomings of existing work, or how existing work is different to what you want to address. This ties in to the prior part: In the prior part, you should have outlined the general approach you wish to take, here you go into slightly more details. The gory details will come as part of your final report at the end of the term.
  • References, i.e. resources that describe prior work.
  • The proposal must be spell-checked and use good grammar. In general, it is good style to write short sentences. Use paragraphs and sub-section headings where applicable.

• Please keep a journal of your work on the project. When it comes to grading the projects, I am happy to reward an A to projects in which team members work hard on accomplishing their goals, but come to the conclusion that their chosen approach just does not work for their chosen problem.