University of Washington: Linguistics: LING 571: Winter 2015: Course Mechanics

LING 571 - Deep Processing Techniques for Natural Language Processing
Winter 2015
Course Mechanics

Homework Submission

Homework should be submitted through the Ling 571 CollectIt.

Deadlines and Late Homework

Homework is generally due at 23:59 Wednesday night.
Credit for partial work will be given. Late assignments will be scored, but will lose 15% for each 24 period after the due date, computed proportionally.
Incompletes can only be requested if all work has been successfully completed up to 2 weeks before the end of the term. For additional detail, please see the University's policy page.

Grading

Scores for each homework assignment will be assigned on a 100 point scale.
The lowest homework grade will be dropped in final grade calculation.
In general, the TA will grade the homeworks under the supervision of the faculty. If you have a question about a homework grade, you should contact the TA first, but you may appeal to the faculty. Grades will only be adjusted in the case of grader error, not simply to boost a low score.
Overall course grades will be assigned using a relative grading method.

Collaboration

Students may work together on the assignments, but all of the material which is turned in for grading must be produced individually. For example, students may form study groups and work out solutions together on a whiteboard, but it would not be permissible for one student to create a computer file containing the answers and then for other students to copy that file and submit it as their own work. The goal of this policy is to encourage the use of homework as a learning aid. Credit should be given for help on the homework by identifying one's collaborators on the first page of the submitted homework assignment. Use of a software library to complete a subcomponent of a programming assignment is acceptable, but must be identified and credited in comments in the code.

Academic Misconduct

Copying code from the web or from classmates is plagiarism. Using other people's code for the main algorithm in an assignment will consistute cheating. For additional detail, please see the University's policy page.