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Class attendance and completion of the readings by the assigned date are
essential. This is not a straight lecture class - you will be expected
to be able to discuss the articles.
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Each student will lead the discussion of an article once or twice during
the semester. Leading the dicussion means
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presenting a summary of the article.The summary should indicate and
explicate the important parts of the article, the problems with the theory
espoused or system explained, and the relevance for previous research discussed
in class;
- The final project should explore a specific problem area in discourse or
dialogue processing. It must go beyond a simple review of the literature
to suggest new solutions
or extensions to existing approaches for the problem studied.
The project may either
be an analytical paper 20-25 pages in length OR may include an implementation
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the proposed solution, accompanied by a 10-15 page description of the
technique,
the phenomena it handles, and how it extends existing capabilities.
Students will come up with the idea for their final project by the 5th
week of the term and will turn in a proposal at that time. Final project
presentations will take place during the last classes.
Notes
Some of the course readings will be available electronically, and linked
to the syllabus. Other readings will be passed out before class..
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