LING 575 - Spoken Dialog Systems
Spring 2013
Intermediate Project Presentations
An intermediate project report describing the general problem, the planned
approach, and related work.
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.
Intermediate Project Presentations
Literature Survey and Project Plans
You should have identified at least 2 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:
- Major challenges related to your project: What makes it hard?
- Current approaches: What theories have been proposed to explain these phenomena? What techniques have been applied to solve these challenges?
- 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?
- Project current state: What steps have you taken so far? Have you
established a baseline or preliminary implementations?
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.
To Do List
- As the discussants:
- Prior to the start of class: Read the project proposals that have been posted for the presentations. Post a follow-up question or comment to the GoPost.
- As the presenter:
- Prepare a 3-5 minute presentation about your topic based on the literature and your work and plans so far. You are encouraged to use slides to aid your
presentation; if you do so, 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.