Presentations

The presentations are the second most significant part of your grade in this class (20%), and provide an additional way to gain a deeper understanding of a specific topic. Please come and see me as early as possible to pick-up a paper. Prepare three (3) suggestions for papers you would like to present.

Due Dates

Paper selection: January 9th, 2011. Email me.
Slides: Two days before your talk. Meet with instructor.
Presentation: In Class.

Guidelines

There are three themes which extends the material we learn in class. It can be a short conference paper or a long journal paper. Each presentation will be twenty minutes long (20) with an additional five minutes (5) for questions and comments. You should decide what part or the paper you want to present. (For example the details of an algorithm? analysis? specific set of experiments?). You should use slides for the presentation (your favorite application). At least three days before your presentation (Thursday, the week before) you should meet with me to discuss the slides and presentation.

You can choose to present either a conference paper or a journal paper. ACL Anthology , NIPS and ICML are three of the main resources where natural language processing is published, with many of the recent papers online. The first is focused in NLP, where the later two are in machine learning. JMLR (http://www.jmlr.org/) is a main relevant online journal, but there are many more, printed or electronic, available through the library.

Themes

There are three themes. Some of them overlap with the material taught in class and provide a way to gain a deeper understanding in a specific subject; some are about new material

Evaluation

Your presentations will be evaluated according to the following three criteria:

Some example papers: