Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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None There is no resit opportunity for this module. |
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Description In the final semester, from May to August, students work on a practicum in the form of a major Natural Language Processing (NLP) research project of a practical and applied nature. Here, students will work individually or in small teams to develop prototype systems to solve a real-world problem. The projects, which may be sponsored by external clients or involve some of the students' or staff's own ideas, typically require feasibility studies followed by the creation of a project plan, and the development of a rigorously validated research experiment in Natural Language Processing. The final research output involves the production of a scientific report/paper. This practicum also permits students to work on projects for external or funding organisations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Formulate a research problem for a given topic in Natural Language Processing (NLP). 2. Demonstrate research project management and research integrity skills. 3. Apply research skills and methods to an NLP problem. 4. Assess the state of the art for a selected research problem in NLP. 5. Implement a solution to a selected NLP research problem as a verifiable software demonstrator. 6. Evaluate a solution to a selected research problem in NLP using the appropriate metrics. 7. Demonstrate a command of scientific writing skills via the production of a practicum report/research paper. 8. Demonstrate research communication and dissemination skills via a practicum presentation (viva). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Practicum (Natural Language Processing)Students will undertake their practicum under the supervision of a staff member. This may involve working in collaboration with an affiliated industrial partner.The practicum will be delivered in the form of a scientific report/paper at the end of August. A defense of their work will take place after delivery of the report/paper. Student progress, both at a group and individual level, will be tracked via i) an online dashboard containing a rolling supervision log, ii) individual contributions to the practicum software repository. Students will be expected to give the breakdown of their work at each stage of the practicum documentation process via the dashboard.. Students will jointly present and defend their practicum research paper and communicate their findings . Marks will be allocated equally although additional marks may be allocated to a student who has been found to have performed exceptionally. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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