CSSE490-NLP: Project Paper
Project Paper
The purpose of the paper is to document your work in a reproducible
manner and to advertise your accomplishments.
It is best to write the paper as you work on your project. For
example, the introduction section should be a slightly edited version
of the project proposal. As you design the architecture of your
system, you should produce diagrams and brief explanations of them and
add them to the paper, while all of this is still fresh in our
mind. As you start to conduct experiments, you should document the
data, the systems settings and the results, even if it is not in a
fancy format. It is always easier to copy and edit your notes than to
have to rerun your experiments.
The paper and project presentation typically go hand in hand. As
mentioned above, you want to write on the paper as you go along. The
project presentation is typically a summary of the paper: it includes
the major figures and a bulleted summary of the text. For example,
when I prepare a presentation, I do copy and paste the figures into
separate slides each and then take the text and paste it into more
slides. I then turn the text into bulleted items. This last step is
typically an iterative process. I revise the bulleted items in
several passes.
Here are some formatting instructions:
- Length: About 6 pages, single-spaced, 10pt font, Times New
Roman. Here is a link to a representative package with formatting
templates: AAAI
formatting templates.
- The paper needs to have a: title, list of authors, contact information,
and an abstract.
- You should have an introductory section in which you desribe the
problem you address, any prior work done on it, and how your
work fits into work that has been done. For this section, you
should be able to recycle parts of your project proposal.
- A couple of sections in which you describe the work you did. These
sections have to be concise. They have to be filled with pertinent
information. Use figures as appropriate.
- If appropriate, an evaluation section in which you evaluate your
work, both objectively and subjectively.
- Close the paper with the "Conclusions" section in which you reflect on
the work you did, describe its impact on other areas, and highlight
future extensions.
- Ensure that your references are up-to-date.
- Ensure that your paper is spell-checked and well written.