Proposal for Term Project J H Wang Apr

Proposal for Term Project J. H. Wang Apr. 17, 2019

Options and Schedule for Term Projects • Options for term projects – Option 1: team-based system project • i. e. , extension to homework exercises – Option 2: academic paper presentation • Only one person, NOT team-based • Tentative schedule for all teams: – Proposal: *required* two weeks after midterm (Apr. 29, 2019) – Presentations (including demos): *required* in the last three weeks (starting from May 27, 2019) – Final report: before the end of the semester (Jun. 21, 2019) • Slides, source code, documentation

Proposal (for System Projects) • A one-page description of ideas about your system – Introduction: an overview of the problem that you’re trying to deal with – Methods: possible issues, and the major ideas on your design or selected tools to solve the problem – Team members: the names and the responsibilities of each individual member *must* be clearly identified – Preferred time slots: your preferred time slots within the last four weeks • A 20 -minute presentation that focuses on the ideas of your design, including demo and Q&A • System functionalities and presentations will be counted in the score

Proposal (for Paper Presentation) • A one-page description of your selected papers to present – Introduction: an overview of your selected paper which is related to information retrieval – Keypoints: main content of your selected paper including methods, major contribution, experimental results – Preferred time slots: your preferred time slots within the last four weeks • No team work allowed • A 20 -minute presentation that focuses on the major ideas in your selected paper and Q&A • Paper quality and presentations will greatly affect the score – Recommended sources: latest papers preferred • Top conferences: SIGIR, CIKM, WWW, JCDL, … • Journals: TOIS, JASIST, IP&M,

Possible Topics for Systems • News Stance Detection Task in AI Cup 2019 • Improvements on your prototype retrieval system based on exercises, e. g. : – User interface: query expansion, relevance feedback (Ch. 9), visualization, search-result clustering (Ch. 15) for search-result presentation – Other improvements: more query types (phrase, proximity, wildcard, spell-correction, …), retrieval models, ranking schemes, document collections, … • Any topic that you think interesting and non-trivial to extend from your prototype system, e. g. : – Application of text classification, or clustering in different media – Retrieval and analysis of social media such as blog, news, … – Different platforms, media types, languages: mobile IR, multimedia IR, cross-language IR, …

Example: News Stance Detection in AI Cup 2019 • https: //aidea-web. tw/moe 2019 • Two tasks – News Stance Retrieval Application – News Stance Retrieval Technology • Rewards – A maximum prize of NT$100, 000 for each task – Learning practical techniques in retrieval tasks – Credits in this course

News Stance Retrieval Technology • Schedule – Mar. 22: registration open – Mar. 25: training corpus (TD) and partial dataset (NC-1) and partial test queries (QS-1) released – May 6: complete corpus (NC-2) released – Jul. 8: complete test queries (QS-2) released and the formal competition – Oct. 16: final ranking announced

News Stance Retrieval Application • Schedule – Mar. 22: registration open – May 6: registration closed – May 17: proposal submission due – Jun. 20: review result and list of finalists announced – Sep. 16: final report submission – Oct. 16: presentation and demonstration – Oct. 21: final ranking announced

Credits in this Course • Participation – Your participation in the competition can be regarded as your term project – Score: • For technology task: depending on your ranking in the scoreboard at the end of phase one • For application task: depending on your idea • Extra Bonus – For technology task: If you got higher ranks in the scoreboard, you get extra bonus – For application task: If you got selected in the finalists, you get extra bonus

Proposal Submission • Due: two weeks *after* midterm (Apr. 29, 2019) • Submission site: http: //mslin. ee. ntut. edu. tw/ – Your proposal is subject to review and possible modification according to our suggestions • The presentation schedule will be arranged in the last three weeks – Starting from May 27, 2019 – Preferred time slots *should* be specified in the proposal – No other time slots available for presentation – No presentation, no score for term project

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