Ling 573 - Natural Language Processing Systems and Applications
Spring 2011
Deliverable #1: Setting up: Due April 5, 2011

Goals

Through this assignment you will set up the environment for your project: There is no coding or development required for this deliverable.

Organize your team

For this project you will work in teams of 3 (or 2).

Setting up your repository

Once you form your team and send your team list to Ryan, David Brodbeck will set up an SVN repository for your team on the Linguistics SVN server.

NOTE: If you strongly prefer to use an alternate system (e.g., GIT) for your repository, you may do so, but you will have to manage the setup and access yourselves, and provide access to the repository to the instructional staff. David Brodbeck will provide a directory on the cluster.

You should lay out the repository along the following lines. Assuming the group's directory is G1,
G1/trunk: main code
G1/branches: experiments
G1/tags: releases/deliverables
G1/tags/D1
G1/tags/D2
G1/tags/D3
G1/tags/D4

Each release should have following basic structure:
Dx/Dx.cmd: top-level Condor file (not needed for D1)
Dx/README: not needed for D1
Dx/src: source code
Dx/doc: reports, powerpoints, additional documentation
Dx/outputs: output files
Dx/results: evaluation results

Beginning the project report

Create an initial project report - essentially a paper outline, according to the guidelines.

This initial version should include the sections (headings and as little text as you'd like) below:

The References Section should include at least two properly formatted entries.

Please name your report D1.pdf.

The goal of this exercise is to ensure that, for the remainder of the course, you can concentrate on building working systems, rather than trying to figure out bibtex or arguing with your teammates about whether to use Word or latex.

Summary