From owner-cse663-fa08-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Nov 7 09:34:09 2008 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:33:58 -0500 From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: 663: The Audience for Your Project Report To: CSE663-FA08-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: The Audience for Your Project Report ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Several of you have asked how much information, and what kind of information, to include about the background of the CVA project in your final report. One thing you should *not* do is to consider me to be your only audience. Don't forget that your report will be put on the project's website, so people at other institutions who are not part of our project might read it; you want to make your report intelligible to this (unknown) audience. Think of your audience (the people who might read your paper) as people who know something about AI and KRR or who know something about vocabulary acquisition, but who are not familiar with the CVA project. It might help to consider what you might say to a computer-science graduate-student friend of yours at another institution who asks you what you did for your project. Imagine yourself talking to this individual, and write down what you say. Another way to think of it is to consider two extremes: Someone who knows nothing about computers, at one extreme, and the person who wrote the CVA algorithms, at the other extreme. You *don't* want to address either of these two people: The first one doesn't have enough prior knowledge, and the second one knows more than you do ;-) Or imagine yourself explaining what this is all about to your boss at work or to someone interviewing you for a job. Jesper had a nice idea: Imagine yourself talking to yourself, but not you now; rather, the "you" whom you were *before* the course began! For other ideas (some good, some not so good), take a look at other project reports, located at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/CVA/cvapapers.html#progressreports