From - Fri Apr 23 08:58:38 2004 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.740 Subject: FINAL PRESENTATIONS Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:04:37 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Computer Science and Engineering Lines: 71 Sender: Ncs@buffalo.edu Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: wasat.cse.buffalo.edu X-Trace: prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu 1082639077 4176 128.205.32.15 (22 Apr 2004 13:04:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:04:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.740:118 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: FINAL PRESENTATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A reminder that at tomorrow's final session, you will each give a 5-10 minute presentation, without slides or handouts, of your work this semester, organized as follows: 1. What you worked on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Give a brief statement of your project. If you were working on a passage, tell us the passage and the unknown word. 2. What you accomplished. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Briefly recount what you were able to accomplish. E.g., what kind of background knowledge did you need, what kinds of representational problems did you have to solve, what was the outcome, etc. 3. What the immediate next steps are. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is where to tell us what still needs to be done to finish up. Include problems you are trying to debug, open issues that you haven't yet resolved, etc. This is the place to discuss all those things that you'd like to do if only I had given you another week to work on it--the things that are "left hanging" and that the next person to work on the project (which might be you, if you're interested in continuing!) needs to pay immediate attention to. 4. What needs to be done in the future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's where you look a bit further ahead and suggest future projects. Were there some deep and interesting representational issues that need looking at (e.g., the kinds of things that I said were probably dissertation projects)? Were there other passages containing your word that should be analyzed? For your final project reports: 1. Your abstract can be based on items 1-4 above. 2. When writing, it helps to keep the intended audience in mind (i.e., who are you writing for?). You are NOT writing for me alone! You are also writing for your successor--the next person to work on your part of the project. You need to give that individual enough information so that they can continue where you left off. Tell them where files are located (and send me copies of all those files, please!). Tell them about things they need to look at first. 3. Do not assume that the reader knows anything about the CVA project! If your report is good, it will go on our website (unless you tell me otherwise), and may be read by complete strangers. Consequently, you need to introduce the project and explain your role in it. 4. Include as appendices copies of all relevant files: demos, transcripts of sample runs, etc. These files should be fully annotated/commented so that someone other than you reading them will be able to understand them. 5. Be sure to follow any other guidelines as mentioned in the syllabus or the seminar-project webpage: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/740/S04/syl.html#conf http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/740/S04/cvaproject.html 6. For my writing guidelines, go to http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtowrite.html