Final Project Presentations

Here is the schedule for final project presentations.  As we discussed in class, the presentation will be 15 minutes followed by five minutes of questions.  Although we discussed doing auto-advance in class,with the longer talks, I'd like to try without auto advance, because I think 15 minutes is too long for auto-advance to work well.  Thus you can use whatever presentation tool and format that you'd like. 

Your presentation should include:

• Research question
• Significance (why is it an important problem?)
• Related Work (who else has addressed it, and how is your approach different?)
• Methodology (what you did to address the problem)
• Results (what new things have you learned about the research question?)
• Contributions (What have you contributed to the state of the art through this project? What is the answer to your research question?)

You should also prepare a written final project document which should cover these areas, directed at a reader unfamiliar with the project.  It should be written in the style of the papers we have been reading, with enough detail that an interested reader could implement your algorithm to reproduce your results.  This document is due to me and Eugene by email on Thursday 12/12, the last day of classes. 


Thursday 12/5:

• Jun Ki Lee, Zhiqiang Sui.  Learning Natural Language Commands for Robots in Home Environment Situations.
• Miles Eldon and Kurt Spindler.  Comparing Inference Algorithms for Grounding Trajectories.
• Do Kook Choe.  Navigation via Machine Translation.
• Stephen Brawner.  Task-based User Modeling in Shared Autonomy.

Tuesday 12/9:

• David Abel and Gabrial Barth-Maron
• Lauren Bilsky.  Machine Translation using Grounded Language and Topic Modeling.
• Andrew Kovacs and Sam Birch.  Webtalk.
• Xiaolu Li , Zhe Zhao.  Automatic Turtle Graphics.

Thursday 12/12:

• Izaak Baker and Nakul Gopalan.  Athena.
• Charles Yeh and Bowei Wang.  Application of SHRDLU in Minecraft.
• Yujie Wan, Lixing Lian.  Learning Semantic Parser from Question­-Answer Pairs.
• Tom Sgouros. SHRDLU updated: parsing with ambiguity and without rules