Project Presentation

On June 5th, you will be presenting the progress on your project in class. You will need to submit the presentation to Canvas 1 hour before the class, i.e. by 3 pm on June 5th, 2018.

Expectations of Progress

We do not expect you to have finished your project, but instead, present what the problem you are looking at, description of the task and dataset, preliminary results, and plan of action. By the presentation, you should have:

  • a well-defined problem, i.e. how to frame it in terms of supervised/unsupervised algorithms
  • identified some details of the solution, i.e. which features, which classifiers
  • gathered the data, if not already available
  • planned out what the evaluation metrics are, and how you will analyze the results
  • tried to train some preliminary tests of your ideas. If data is too big, train on a small subset
  • identified what "extra work" you will do, for groups of three

If you are concerned you are far from this goal, reach out to us.

Structure of the Presentation

The presentation itself is fairly informal, but it's important to structure it well. Following are some things you should consider including, maybe 1-2 slide per topic.

  • 7 minutes presentation for groups of 2, 10 minutes for groups of 3
  • First slide: Who are the team members? What is your project team name? Feel free to give the project a title, if you have not already.
  • Motivation: What general idea are you focusing on? Why is it important?
  • Problem Definition: What is the exact task description, i.e. think input/output of your work. What are your metrics of success? 
  • Proposed Solution: How are you planning to address it?
  • Dataset: Description of the dataset. Show statistics (number of words/sentences/documents/labels), and some examples
  • Preliminary Results: How far are you in terms of results? Any analysis? 
  • Plan of action: What's remaining to do? 
  • Questions/concerns: What are you concerned about, i.e. why might it not work? Any questions for others?

Peer Review

Keep in mind that you will be assigned a number of reviewers who will evaluate your project presentation based on the above requirements. Instructions for reviewing here: Project Peer Grading