Developing the Ideas

In the EBUS5003 lab today Rafael said that the best way to move on with the project. His suggestion was that I pick a research paper from the TDT TRECs and try to emulate their results, and then extend the work to my data set and my application.

This seems like a good idea as then i will at least have a bench mark of where to go. The paper that I will use is the paper in 'Topic Detection and Tracking: Event Based Information Organization', from CMU. It is Chapter 5 (Multi-strategy learning for Topic Detection and Tracking Yang et.al.)

The reason I choose this paper is that it covers all the areas that i will deal with, as well as having a quite detailed history of the way it has been constructed. The results and evaluation methodology is also well reported.

Overall the project i will be doing will concentrate on 3 tasks involved in TDT, all of which are described in detail. These tasks are:

1. First Story Detection
2. Topic Detection (Clustering)
3. Tracking

My next plan is to obtain a copy of the TDT3 Corpus (which is already annotated as i do not want to spend too much time doing that). I've emailed Rafael about is as it seems you have to pay (allot) for it, which I don't really want to do.

I will also be obtaining a laptop from Dan tomorrow that i will be able to use for the duration of the project. This will be my working laptop where i will be able to use it at Vision Bytes. I will be going there more often from next week.

The full text of the article and the way that i will attack the problems will be up tomorrow.

Further I'm reinstalling Linux at home :-) For both EBUS COSC and Thesis, might even consider putting it on the laptop, but not sure. Think I'll keep this running Visa for the sanity at work.

Final Project Plan

I sent Rafael the final version of the plan today to get him to look it over quickly. Hopefully i can then hand it in asap.

I am already slightly behing as i need to type up most of the reading material onto the Blog, this will be done today and tonight. I will then be back on track, and finish the UML diagrams and also the requirements document.

Project Plan

So if haven't been here in a while! But now its time for the plan to start to take shape.
The first thing is i'll be making a plan for the project. This will include Gnatt chart, the resource mangement.
The first will be a draft and will be reworked.