CS795/895: Seminar: Mining Scholarly Big Data (Fall 2018)
Course Information
* Credit: 3
* Prerequisites: CS480/580 or equivalent, CS734 or equivalent, CS751 or equivalent
* Lecture time: T/R 9:30 - 10:45 am.
* Office Hours: Tuesday, 11 am. -noon, or by appointment
* Classroom: 2120 ECSB
* First class: 8/28/2018
* Last class: 12/6/2018
* Textbook: no textbook
* Communication: All course related questions should be posted on Google group (odu-cs895-f18)
Description
One of the computer science subject areas that are the most impacted by artificial intelligence in the last decade is natural language processing (NLP). This technology further leads to advancements for machines to read, understand, and write textual content.
This seminar is designed to use textual content in scientific documents as an example to train graduate students effective and efficient ways to process text and extract statistical, syntactical, and semantic features from free text. The other half of the seminar will cover contemporary research topics in scholarly big data, an instance of big data, and more broadly text mining. The course will introduce commonly used machine learning (ML), NLP, and information retrieval (IR) tools as a preparation for a course project.
Objectives
* Understand the main tasks of text mining and what NLP can do for these tasks
* Understand the state-of-the-art solutions of research topics such as keyphrase extraction, topic modeling, document classification, recommendation, knowledge extraction, and entity matching
* Learn knowledge and skills of essential tasks in ML, NLP, and IR
* Learn how to efficiently search, read and digest research papers
* Learn how to choose research topics, conduct preliminary research, and project plans
* Learn how to effectively present research work
Grading policy
* Attendance: 10%
* Pop quizzes: 15%
* Peer reviews: 15%
* Presentation: 30%
* Final proposal: 30%
Grading chart
+---------------+
| 94-100 | A |
| 90-93.99 | A- |
| 87-89.99 | B+ |
| 84-86.99 | B |
| 80-83.99 | B- |
| 77-79.99 | C+ |
| 74-76.99 | C |
| 64-73.99 | D |
| 0-63.99 | F |
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Attendance policy
Attendance is required. One absence causes a deduction of 1% on attendance until all points are deducted in this item. If more than 11 absence is observed, the student automatically get F for this course.
In case of absence due to legitimate reasons, including but not limited to sickness, University-approved curricular and extracurricular activities (such as athletic contests), career interviews, the death of family members, students should be prepared to provide documentation before classes. Opportunities for makeup classes are available during office hours.
Academic integrity
Individual assignments must be completed independently. Students are strongly encouraged to form study groups and to learn from the peers. However, discussion on final proposal writing and presentation in study group should be limited to general approaches to solutions. Specific answers should never be discussed. ODU's policy regarding Academic Integrity must be followed.
Cheating: Using unauthorized assistance, materials, study aids, or other information in any academic exercise (Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to, the following: using unapproved resources or assistance to complete an assignment, paper, project, quiz or exam; collaborating in violation of a faculty member's instructions; and submitting the same, or substantially the same, paper to more than one course for academic credit without first obtaining the approval of faculty).
Plagiarism: Using someone else's language, ideas, or other original material without acknowledging its source in any academic exercise. 4 Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to, the following: submitting a research paper obtained from a commercial research service, the Internet, or from another student as if it were original work; or making simple changes to borrowed materials while leaving the organization, content, or phraseology intact. Plagiarism also occurs in a group project if one or more of the members of the group does none of the group's work and participates in none of the group's activities, but attempts to take credit for the work of the group.
Fabrication: Inventing, altering or falsifying any data, citation or information in any academic exercise. Examples of fabrication include, but are not limited to, the following: citation of a primary source which the student actually obtained from a secondary source; or invention or alteration of experimental data without appropriate documentation (such as statistical outliers).
Facilitation: Helping another student commit, or attempt to commit, any Academic Integrity violation, or failure to report suspected Academic Integrity violations to a faculty member. An example of facilitation may include circulating course materials when the faculty member has not explicitly authorized their use.
Copyright
All course materials students receive or to which students have online access are protected by copyright. FOR COURSES IN WHICH THEY HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN OR ARE CURRENTLY ENROLLED, students may use course materials and make copies for their own use as needed, but unauthorized distribution and/or uploading of materials without the instructor’s express permission is strictly prohibited.
Disability Accommodations
In order to receive consideration for reasonable accommodations, you must contact the appropriate disability services office at the campus where you are officially enrolled and provide documentation. If the documentation supports your request for reasonable accommodations, your campus’s disability services office will provide you with an accommodation letter. Please share this letter with your instructors and discuss the accommodations with them as early in your courses as possible. The detail of disability accommodations is documented in ODU policy #4500.
Discrimination and Harassment
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Gender-based sexual harassment, including sexual violence, are forms of gender discrimination in that they deny or limit an individual’s ability to participate in or benefit from University programs or activities. These policies shall not be construed to restrict academic freedom at the university, nor shall they be construed to restrict constitutionally protected expression. The policy is coded in University Policy #1005.
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