Final Report Guidelines

Presentation

The presentation should include only the proposed project, not the LINC movie discussion:

• Every team is expected to give a 12 mins presentation.

• Your presentation must include key contents from each section in the report (see below).

Report

The proposal writing must be created in LaTex using this template.

• LaTex Guidelines

The report should be 8 - 10 pages, including figures and tables (excluding references). Your proposal must include the following:

1. Abstract: Summarize the report, including the motivation, approach, and results.

2. Vision: Explain what this project aims to accomplish and why that is beneficial to society.

3. Challenges: Describe the main challenges of your project. Describe how your vision, approach, evaluation, etc. may have changed due to the challenges.

4. Dialogue Flow: Describe the overall dialogue flow of your system. Additionally, provide sample dialogues that your system can conduct.

5. Methodology: Illustrate specific methods used in your chatbot (other than the ones built-in STDM), including external APIs, datasets, macros, etc.

6. Evaluation: Describe the demographics and statistics of the users who participated in assessing your chatbot. Explain in detail how you evaluate your chatbot.

7. Novelty: Point out the main novelty of your chatbot against competitors. Survey on related systems similar to yours.

8. Contributions: Depict the contribution of each team member throughout the course of the project and estimate the percentages of individual contributions so that they sum up to 100%.

Submissions

• Submit your presentation slides and the report in PDF to Canvas.