Language Technology Project 2007

The Language Technology Project 2007 was a Masters course at the University of Amsterdam in the third part of the first semester (January/February 2007). The course was supervised by Erik Tjong Kim Sang. The goal of the course was to design and build a basic natural language processing system in teams of about eight people.

The first session took place on Monday 8 January 2007, 13:15-15:00 in room A.103. The course had two meetings per week on Monday and either Wednesday or Thursday afternoons (14:15-16:00, room REC-I.103). It lasted for four weeks. Schedule:

   Mon 08 Jan 13:15-15:00 A.103 (done)
   Wed 10 Jan 14:15-16:00 I.103 (done)
   Mon 15 Jan 13:15-15:00 A.103 (done
   Thu 18 Jan 14:15-16:00 I.103 (done)
   Mon 22 Jan 13:15-15:00 A.103 (done)
   Thu 25 Jan 14:15-16:00 I.103 (done)
   Mon 29 Jan 13:15-15:00 A.103 (done)
   Thu 01 Feb 14:15-16:00 I.103 Presentation (done)
   Fri 02 Feb 18:00             Report submission deadline (done)

The project description is available:

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Registering for the course could have be done via Studieweb (requires login).

The assessment of the course will be based on an evaluation of the quality of:

the bi-weekly progress presentations (20%)
the code and design of the system (20%)
the final project presentation (20%)
the produced final report describing the project (40%)

There is a summary available of the course evaluation forms.

You can take a look at the final report produced by the six students in the class.

Language Technology Project 2007

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