Literature Projects

• Student Papers
• Choose paper(s) on the schedule list.
• Presenters. (1) Each presentation should be about 20-25 minutes in length, to be followed by 10 minutes or so of discussion. (2) Powerpoint presentations are required. (We will post them on our class web site.) (3) Be sure to present the main ideas and results of the paper. (4) The total score for each presentation is 60 points.
  • 10 points for the overview -- introduce the work and state the goals and objectives of the authors;
  • 25 points for the approach -- explain the basic problem and how the authors attacked and solved the problem;
  • 15 points for the conclusion -- interpret the results and give your assesment of the strengths, weakness, and possible future work;
  • 10 points for answers to questions -- answer the questions as posed by the class.
• Listeners. (1) Prepare two good questions about the paper in advance, write them down, and print them out. (2) Add at least one more question during the presentation. (3) We'll use these questions for class discussion. These questioins are due on the date the paper is presented, 5 points for each set of questions for a paper. (Presenters get these points "for free.")
• Instructor and Guest Lecture Papers
• Optional Reading (You are only responsible for the material in the .ppt presentation.)
• Participation Responsibilities
  • For each presentation, write 2 good discussion questions while listening.
  • Grading: Hand in questions. (We will grade them on the basis of 5 points for each set: 3 points for questions that are really good, are asked, and lead to good discussion; 2 points for thoughful questions; and 1 point for any reasonable question.)

Programming Project

• Choose a data extraction application domain. Be sure that there are at least 8 web pages from different web sites available that you can use for experimentation.
• Create a data extraction ontology for your application. First use one Web page to build your initial ontology. Then tune your ontology on several (3-5) additional Web pages from different sites until you are satisfied that it works well. (Keep a log of how long it takes you to create your initial ontology and how much time it takes you to tune your ontology.)
• Test your application ontology on 2 different "randomly chosen" pages that are applicable to your ontology from sites not yet used. Compute recall and precisions ratios for each lexical object sets specified in your ontology.
• Adjust your ontology one "last" time. Test your application ontology on the last 2 different "randomly chosen" pages and record the precision and recall ratios. And also, run your final ontology on all of the web pages you have collected and record the overall precision and recall ratios.
• Write a report to analysis your results and discuss the reasons of your false positive and true negative results, if any of them is applicable. Also keep a log of any other interesting problems encountered.
• Electronically submit your application ontology for use in the demo. Also, submit one or two HTML pages that you think describing the ability of your ontology the best. Note that please don't send any page that takes a long time to be extracted.

• Write an OWL ontology for your chosen domain.
• Choose a Web page that you have tested for your data-extraction ontology.
• Run your data-extraction ontology to get the result table.
• You need to write a program that fulfills the follows
  • be able to automatically insert a pair of class tags for each extracted data instance in the Web page;
  • be able to automatically insert the URI of the tagged data instance into the created OWL ontology;
  • be able to correctly represent the tuples in your result table in the OWL ontology.
• The program should take three inputs:
  • OWL domain ontology
  • target Web page
  • extracted data table for the target Web page
• For evaluation, we will test your program (1) using a page we select in your chosen domain and (2) using a classmate's Web page, associated data table, and his OWL domain ontology.

Research Project

• 25 points for the introduction -- clear motivation for the problem (2-3 pages in the write-up and as the introductory part of the presentation)
• 15 points for the thesis statement -- clear, concise statement of the problem being solved. (1 paragraph; one slide)
• 40 points for methods -- an explanation stating how the problem is to be solved and the technical details needed to make the solution viable. (5-7 pages; the body of your presentation)
• 10 points for the contributions. (list 3-4; make a slide for these)
• 10 points for the outline -- make this be a two-level outline for a research paper you could publish in a CS journal (in making your outline, consider how papers are written for our discipline and why, and make your outline conform to this standard).