STANFORD CS 224U/LINGUIST 288   -     Autumn 2007
Final Project Instructions
Due: Monday Dec 10 at noon PST

The paper should be 8 pages long, in "ACL" submission format. ACL format is described here, and there are both LaTeX and Word templates:

http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~djh/acl08/stylefiles.html

Please email the paper as a PDF file to Dan, Chris, with cc: to Nate by noon PST on Monday, December 10, 2007. Put 224U in the subject line so we see it.

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 methodology 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 code up some version of someone else's algorithm just to learn the details of the algorithm, or do a big semantic data labeling project. Here your want clear sections describing

  • The task that you are replicating or the algorithm you are implementing or the data you are labeling.
  • 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.