Final exam

Background

Final examination in this class takes the form of a ¡®home exam¡¯, i.e. a project that students can work on over a period of three weeks.  Like for the exam-qualifying obligatory assignments, group work (in teams of up to three students) is encouraged (but PhD-students enrolled for IN9550 must complete the home exam individually). Team composition needs to be declared at the start of the exam period and, cannot be changed after April 26, 2023.  Also, each team needs to decide beforehand which of the available tracks they want to research; these ¡®tracks¡¯ of the exam will be introduced in the lecture on April 18 (examples from previous years have included named entity recognition, negation resolution, and sentiment analysis).  Further background on the tracks and supporting data and code will be available through the course GitHub repo. Please announce your team composition and choice of track no later than April 26 by emailing the course contact address in5550-help@ifi.uio.no.

The main exam period will be Tuesday, April 25, to Tuesday, May 16, 2023.  Once a team declares their track (by email, see above) they will receive a written set of suggestions for how to approach the research project.  During the exam period, there will be no regular lectures or group sessions. However, project teams will be offered a mentoring sessions with the track chairs (the course instructors); these sessions will be organized as joint meeting for all teams subscribed to a given track. 

Upon submission of the home exam (in the form of a scientific paper), there will be a peer reviewing period where we also require students to contribute feedback on submissions by others (in a double-blind, anonymous fashion); reviews will be due on May 25.  Each team will then be required to revise their manuscript (if accepted/approved by the chairs) according to the feedback from reviewers and the area chairs and submit the final, camera-ready version by June 2. Finally, the workshop itself will be held in the lecture slot on Tuesday, June 6, starting at 12:15.  Here, all groups/students will give a short presentation of their approach and results, and there will be an award ceremony of the best paper(s) selected by the WNNLP programme committee. This session will be the final gathering of the class this term.

Schedule

Submissions

Submissions must be formatted according to the standard style files of the ACL Rolling review (ARR). Please start from the ARR template files for the easy-to-use and premium-quality LaTeX typesetting system (strongly recommended) or M$ Word. Submissions should be minimally five pages long and must not exceed eight pages in total length, including all tables and figures, but not counting the list of bibliographic references (i.e. the final, unnumbered References section). All papers submitted for review must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author identities.  However, for full replicability, each submission must be backed up by a private repository (in the UiO installation of GitHub, as always) providing all code, scripts, possibly additional data, and at least minimal instructions on how to run and evaluate the system.  The code repository will only be visible to track chairs, i.e. please make sure to share it with the instructors in GitHub. All submission must be uploaded electronically no later than May 16 to the on-line conference management site EasyChair (link will be provided in due time). It will be possible to revise and resubmit, so please make your initial submission well before the deadline.

Camera-Ready Manuscripts

All submissions that have been accepted for publication are published as part of the proceedings volume for the workshop, essentially a peer-reviewed edited anthology (see the WNNLP Proceedings from 2022).  Authors are required to revise their manuscript in the light of reviewer comments, seeking to address any errors, resolve any sources of potential unclarity, improve presentation and language, polish bibliographic references, and change to non-anonymous formatting.  To make these changes, final, camera-ready manuscripts can use one additional page of text, i.e. the page limit is extended to up to nine pages in total length (still not counting the bibliography). Final non-anonymous manuscripts (in PDF) must be uploaded through the EasyChair submission system no later than Friday, June 2 (23:59 CEST).

Workshop presentations

All teams (whether PhD or MSc) should prepare a 5-minute "lighning talk" for the final workshop on June 6th at 12:15, including a few slides (as a pdf). The track chairs will present a short task overview for each track, so you don't need to spend time and space on this in your presentation. Focus on the main contributions and results. Note that the 5-minute time limit is strict due our tight program, so be sure to not include more material than you can realistically cover. 

We have a separate public (uio-)git repo for the workshop, where all authors have been given write access: https://github.uio.no/in5550/WNNLP-2023 
Make sure you push your presentation as a pdf to `presentations' directory in the git repo before the workshop, using the following file naming convention: track_title_of_paper.pdf. The track designator can be one of `tsa', `nmt' or `dm'. So, for example: tsa_experiments_with_multilingual_sentiment_analysis.pdf