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CS 224S/LINGUIST 281   -     Winter 2009
Final Project Instructions |
| Due: Monday March 16 at noon PST
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I recommend the final project be done in groups. Groups may not have more than 3 members.
The final project has two components, a poster and a paper. The poster session will be held
in the Gates Lobby on Thursday, March 12, 3:15--4:30. Poster boards and easels will be available in Nikkie Salgado's office, Room 187 in Gates.
The poster
A poster is a "personal" oral presentation
of your results. We will supply a posterboard
and easel, and you can either print out a single
big poster (our poster boards are 18 x 29.5 inches)
or tack up separate sheets of paper.
Q: What should go on a poster?
A: A poster should tell a story; someone
should be able to read it without you saying much
A: But a poster should not have too much text;
just enough text around each of your cute graphs
or screenshots
for the reader to understand what the point of the graph was
A: A poster can also be a backdrop for a demo,
if you would like to demo your system on a laptop!
If you want to do a single large poster sheet (instead of several pieces
of paper) and you have a Stanford ID, you can find relatively cheap wide-format printing at the Technology Services Desk on the 2nd floor of Meyer Library (hours, location); they charge a flat rate of $45/print for up to 4' x 6'. (Compare to $7/square foot at Kinko's). Slightly more information on this service is available here.
The paper
The paper should be 4 pages long, in "INTERSPEECH"
submission format. INTERSPEECH format is described
here:
http://www.interspeech2007.org/papers/?f=authors.html
INTERSPEECH format is very short (4 pages isn't much),
so if you want to include other information (details
about your data, or other interesting facts, or a really
beautiful figure that just doesn't fit) you may
add a short appendix of a few pages more.
But I don't recommend it. Being able to
get your idea and result across briefly and clearly is
crucial (in life, not just in this class).
Please send the paper as a PDF file to both me and to
cs224s-win0809-ta@lists.stanford.edu
by noon PST on Monday, March 16, 2007.
What to put in a final project paper:
Research papers:
These are papers
where you attempted some new research idea.
This doesn't have to be publishable research;
as we've discussed, it's totally great
to do a replication of a result
you read about. Such papers should contain
clear sections describing:
The problem you are addressing
Your "hypothesis" or proposed solution (and
if you are implementing someone else's solution,
where you got the idea from)
Alternative solutions, or at least a "baseline"
that you are comparing your solution to.
Your methdology that you used to test your hypothesis.
Your evaluation, i.e., the experimental results
A discussion of what your results imply
for your hypothesis/problem.
Implementation papers
These are papers where you train
a recognizer on some new data (building a digit
recognizer in language X or a TTS system in your voice), or
code up some version of someone else's algorithm
just to learn the details of the algorithm.
Here your want clear sections describing
The
recognition task that you are building or the
algorithm you are implementing.
Your methodology
(What you did, how you did it).
The evaluation, i.e. the experimental results: did your
implementation work?
A discussion of what you learned.
Some previous year final projects
Winter 2006
Winter 2007
Some publishable project ideas for this quarter
Phone classification: replicate machine learning algorithms
(max margin HMM, MCE, MMIE, etc) and apply to the task of phone
classification or recognition.
Automatic detection of disfluencies in various languages
Using prosody and other acoustic features to detect intensively emotional words in product reviews
Using prosody and other acoustic features to detect emotion/conversational style from speed dates
Automatic measurement of phonetic variation across languages; for example
we know that English dialects are more variable than North America,
but could we measure this? What about Continental versus South American Spanish?
Cross-linguistic analysis of word production: are frequent or predictable words shorter in Chinese?
Are words near disfluencies hyperarticulated? If so in what way?
True for all disfluencies? How about for tonal languages like Mandarin