CS224N/Ling 237 Final Programming Project Guidelines

This project is an opportunity for you to work on an NLP system in an area of your choice! The projects will be judged on creativity in defining the problem to be investigated, the methods used, thoroughness in considering and justifying your design decisions, and quality of your write-up, including your testing of the system, error and success analysis, and reporting of results. You will not be penalized if your system performs poorly, providing your initial design decisions weren’t obviously unjustifiable, and you have made reasonable attempts to analyze why it failed, and to examine how the system might be improved. The final project can be a group project. Indeed, we’d strongly encourage you to work as a group, so you can attempt something larger and more interesting. The amount of work should be appropriately scaled to the size of the group (though the expected scaling is sublinear), and you should include a brief statement on the responsibilities of different members of the team. Team members will normally get the same grade, but we reserve the right to differentiate in egregious cases. In general we would like group sizes of 2 or 3 – if you’re considering a bigger group, you must talk to us and convince us that a group of greater than 3 is manageable given the inherent parallelizability of the task, and the time available to organize and implement the system. Solo projects are allowed. You are free (and, where appropriate, encouraged) to make use of existing code and systems as part of your project, but you should make sure their use is properly acknowledged, and make clear what additional value your project is adding.