ELEC-E5550 - Statistical Natural Language Processing D, Lecture, 11.1.2022-12.4.2022

Topic outline

• Project work
  The project work is done in groups of 2 or 3 people. The workload is about 2 credits. You are free to choose the topic yourself. More specific instructions on topic selection and project goals will be given during the first lecture.
  

  There will be several deadlines to motivate you to work on the project throughout the whole duration of the course, and not just at the very end :-)

  The deadlines are for the: 

  1. Abstract
  2. Project Plan
  3. Literature survey
  4. Project Presentation video
  5. Final report

  The Project Plan and the Literature survey will be peer-graded by other students. The peer-grading will not influence the final project grade but will be considered in the overall course grade. Note that all group members submit a copy of the project plan and literature survey. The project grade itself is proposed by an evaluator working in the Aalto speech recognition research group and then is agreed upon by the course staff committee. The grade is based on the final report.
  
  Every group also needs to submit a 5-minute video presentation describing the project and its results. Every group needs to watch every other group video and give short pros/cons comments on it. Presentations are also considered to be a peer-grading activity. In addition, there will be a vote for the best presentation and the winner will get a prize (TBA).
  
  The tentative overall schedule for the project work is given below:
  
  

  • Project group forming: Complete the mandatory entrance survey to indicate your intentions and preferences regarding the project work. deadline 18 Jan midnight. Based on your answers, the groups will be formed by January 23 by the course staff. The survey opens on 01.01.2021.
  • Topic selection: submit a team abstract (one-paragraph description of the intended topic). Deadline 3 Feb
  • Project plan and Literature survey: Deadline 15 March
    
  • Peer grading for the Project plan and the Literature survey: Deadline 22 March
    
  • Reaction to peer grading: 29 March
  • Full project report: submission of the final report. See the details below. Deadline 28 April
  • Project Presentation video (5 min): Deadline 5 May
    
  • Vote for the best Project Presentation video: Deadline 19 May

  
  

  • Select activity Entrance survey

    

    Entrance survey Quiz

    This is a mandatory survey for participation in the course. 

    The course project teams will be formed based on these answers. The survey has questions about four areas:

    1. your current skills and background
    2. your preferences for teammates (if any)
    3. the amount of time and attention you are able to dedicate to the project
    4. your plans and hopes for the project

    Your answers will help us place you in a team that you'll be (hopefully) comfortable working in.
    
    

    The deadline is 18.01 at 23.59
    The groups will be formed by 23.01 by course assistants and you'll get notified.

    If you don't answer the survey, you'll be assigned to a project group randomly. 

  • Select activity Team abstract

    

    Team abstract Assignment

    1. Include the name and the composition of your Team (names and email addresses).
       
    2. Write one paragraph on the more specific topic that you plan to address: briefly consider all the aspects of your project, including which approach you will use to evaluate your results. 

    You will receive short feedback on your abstract.

    
    

  • Select activity Full project report

    

    Full project report Assignment

    The report should be structured as follows:
    

    • Title page: the course code and course name, student name(s) and ID(s), date, the topic of your project.
    • Introduction: Describe the research problem: You can think of it through answering questions like why is it a relevant or interesting problem? How can one approach it, in general? How are you approaching it in this work?
    • Methods: Describe the methods that you use in the work.
    • Experiments: What is the experimental setup? Give sufficient details on how the experiments were carried out, so that another person familiar with this course but not with this topic might replicate your experiments.
    • Results: Describe the results of your experiments. You may want to use tables to summarize results, or to show typical samples or particularly interesting cases.
    • Conclusions / Discussion: Based on your results, what conclusions can you draw regarding the question you set out to study?
    • Division of labor: In a group work, describe who did what.
      
    • Acknowledgments: Did you get help? Anyone you wish to particularly thank?
    • References: The bibliography that you utilized, and that you refer to in the text
    • Appendix: Your own program code, possible excerpts of data etc.

    
    
    

  • Select activity Project Video Submission

    

    Project Video Submission Assignment

    5 minute video summarizing your project
  • Select activity Watch Project Videos Here

    Not available unless: You belong to a group in Project work

    

    Watch Project Videos Here URL
  • Select activity Vote for the Best Project Videos

    Not available unless: You belong to a group in Project work

    

    Vote for the Best Project Videos Questionnaire