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CSL772: Natural Language Processing - Autumn 2014 Monday, Thursday 5-6:20 pm in Bharti 201 |
| Instructor:
Mausam
(mausam at cse dot iitd dot ac dot in) Office hours: by appointment, SIT Building Room 402 |
TAs (Office hours, by appointment): Yashoteja Prabhu, yashoteja.prabhu AT gmail.com Ankit Anand, ankit.s.anand AT gmail.com Neetu Jindal, er.neetu28 AT gmail.com |
Dan Jurafsky and James Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 2nd Edition,
Prentice-Hall (2008) (required).
Dan Jurafsky and James Martin
Speech and Language Processing, 3nd Edition,
(under development).
Assignments: 30%; Project: 20%; Minor (each): 10%; Final: 30%; Class participation, online discussions: extra credit.
As adapted from Dan Weld's guidelines.
Collaboration is a very good thing. On the other hand, cheating is considered a very serious offense. Please don't do it! Concern about cheating creates an unpleasant environment for everyone. If you cheat, you get a zero in the assignment, and additionally you risk losing your position as a student in the department and the institute. The department's policy on cheating is to report any cases to the disciplinary committee. What follows afterwards is not fun.
So how do you draw the line between collaboration and cheating? Here's a reasonable set of ground rules. Failure to understand and follow these rules will constitute cheating, and will be dealt with as per institute guidelines.
- The Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Rule: This rule says that you are free to meet with fellow students(s) and discuss assignments with them. Writing on a board or shared piece of paper is acceptable during the meeting; however, you should not take any written (electronic or otherwise) record away from the meeting. This applies when the assignment is supposed to be an individual effort or whenever two teams discuss common problems they are each encountering (inter-group collaboration). After the meeting, engage in a half hour of mind-numbing activity (like watching an episode of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi), before starting to work on the assignment. This will assure that you are able to reconstruct what you learned from the meeting, by yourself, using your own brain.
- The Right to Information Rule: To assure that all collaboration is on the level, you must always write the name(s) of your collaborators on your assignment. This also applies when two groups collaborate.