You're submitting a proposal, not a specification - it's natural that your plans will change somewhat as you refine your ideas. But your proposal should be based on an idea that we've discussed and I've approved.

Research Proposal format: your writeup should be 1-2 pages and include:

• description of the research problem you are targeting, summarizing
the 5-10 papers which will represent your key references
• description and justification of your contribution. Examples of possible contributions: Do you plan  to improve on a proposed solution by using a possibly more effective technique? by combining multiple techniques? Or are you proposing a novel different solution?  Or maybe you are planning to apply a technique which has been used for nlp taskA to a different nlp taskB.  .... Are you proposing to apply a technique to a different dataset or to a different language? ...Are you proposing a different evaluation measure?
• description of the dataset (corpus) you are going to use in training/testing your model. Make sure that whatever corpus you need you can get access to it. If you do not need any corpus explain why that is the case.
  
• description of how you are going to evaluate your work. If you are not going to perform any evaluation of your work, justify why this is not feasible in the time frame alloted and present a plan of how you would perform an evaluation if you had more time.

Your presentation should be based on the writeup. However, remember that this is intended for your classmates (not for me) . And they had no previous exposure to your ideas 

Pedagogical Project Proposal: Make “small” contribution to NLP education. Your writeup should be 1-2 pages and include:

• Select an advanced topic that was not covered in class. Describe the topic. and justify why this is important.
   
• Describe educational materials you plan to examine  (e.g., textbook chp., online lectures, tutorials, wikipedia, … ….)
• Describe what will be the learning goals for your lecture and how you plan to achieve those
• Describe how you plan to test your learning goal in the assignment you will design.
  
   

• Brief description of the research problem you are targeting. If not obvious, clarify why it is appropriate for an NLP course.
• Describe your original research plan (the one you proposed). You can describe it as a sequence of steps or as a graph.
• Describe/Justify any change you made to your original plan while you have been working on it (if any)
• Describe what part of your (new) plan you have completed, what part of the plan you are currently working on and what is left to be done
• For the part of the plan you still have to work on give an estimate of how much time each step will take.
• Any other info you feel appropriate......

Also bring to class a short write-up (no more than one page) summarizing your presentation. Please send me your update presentation by 9am of Nov 27