LING 575 A - Discourse & Dialogue
Spring 2011
HW #2: Due 4/27;5/4
Goals
- Refine the topic of your project for the class.
- Evaluate the literature associated with your topic.
- Present your topic and related literature to your peers.
Initial Project Presentations
Literature Survey and Project Plans
You should have identified at least 3 papers to start your investigation of your topic
and refine your ideas. For this assignment, you should begin to review this
literature in detail, focusing on the main papers and connecting them to your
planned project work. You should identify:
- Importance of your topic: Why does it matter? What impact will it have in applications or understanding of linguistic phenomena?
- Major challenges related to your topic: What makes it hard?
- Current approaches: What theories have been proposed to explain these phenomena? What techniques have been applied to solve these challenges?
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- Limitations and your work: What problems do you see in these proposals? How will you test these theories or algorithms?
- Project resources: What corpora or datasets will you use to assess these approaches? What software or toolkits would be helpful? What other papers have you chosen to study and evaluate?
I expect that most of the talks will focus on the 'current approaches' part, but trying to answer these questions will help to motivate and contextualize your
project.
NOTE: Since we have to split presentations over two weeks to
get through everyone, I expect that the presentations on April 27 will
be more basic literature survey, and those presented on May 4 will have more
progress in terms of project planning and execution (identification of data
and resources, discusion of preliminary infrastructure, etc).
To Do List
- As the discussants:
- Prior to the start of class: Read the primary papers that have been posted for this week's presentations. Post a followup question or comment to the GoPost.
- As the presenter:
- No later than the Monday before your presentation: Update your Topic Description and papers on the GoPost (if necessary)
- No later than the Monday before your presentation: Identify one of your papers as primary - the one that everyone else should read - and post a link to it.
- Prepare a ~15 minute presentation about your topic based on the literature and your work so far. The format should be Powerpoint, PDF, or GoogleDocs.
- No later than 3pm on the day of your presentation: Send a copy or link to your presentation to me. It is helpful if I can cue up and test the presentations in advance.