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 May 1st, 2024. Also, each team needs to decide beforehand which of the available topics they want to research; these ‘tracks’ of the exam were introduced in the lecture on April 29. Further background on the tracks and supporting data and code is available through the course GitHub repo. Please announce your team composition and choice of track no later than May 1st by emailing the course contact address in5550-help@ifi.uio.no.
The main exam period will be Monday, April 29 to Monday, May 20, 2024. 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 mentoring sessions with the track chairs (the course instructors); these sessions will be organized as a 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 require students to contribute feedback on submissions by others (in a double-blind, anonymous fashion); reviews will be due on May 24. Each team will then be required to revise their paper (if accepted/approved by the chairs) according to the feedback from reviewers and the area chairs and submit the final, camera-ready version by May 31. Finally, the workshop itself will be held in the lecture slot on Monday, June 3, 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 program committee. This session will be the final gathering of the class this term.
Schedule
| Presentation of tracks and start of the exam period | Monday, April 29 |
| Declaration of team and track | Wednesday, May 1 (latest) |
| Submission Deadline (submission page) | Monday, May 20 (23:59, anywhere on earth) |
| Start of Reviewing Period | Tuesday, May 21 |
| Reviews Deadline | Friday, May 24 (23:59, anywhere on earth) |
| Track Chair Decisions | Monday, May 27 |
| Camera-Ready Manuscripts | Friday, May 31 (23:59, anywhere on earth) |
| Workshop w/ Oral Presentations | Monday, June 3 |
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 20 to the on-line conference management site OpenReview. 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 will be published as part of the proceedings volume for the workshop, essentially a peer-reviewed edited anthology (see the WNNLP Proceedings from 2023). Authors are required to revise their manuscript in the light of reviewer comments, seeking to address any errors, explain unclear formulations, improve presentation and language, polish bibliographic references, and change to non-anonymous formatting. To make these changes, final, camera-ready papers 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 OpenReview submission system no later than Friday, May 31, 23:59 (anywhere on Earth).
Workshop presentations
All teams (whether PhD or MSc) should prepare a "lightning talk" for the final workshop on June 3rd at 12:15, including a few slides. PhD students will have 5 minutes each to present their paper; MSc teams will have 3 minutes each.
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 time limit is strict due to our tight program, so be sure to not include more material than you can realistically cover.
The presentation slides should be pushed to the separate public (UiO-)git repository for the workshop. Make sure you push your presentation as a PDF file to the `presentations' directory before the workshop, using the following file naming convention: track-id_title_of_paper.pdf.