✦ Required components

✦ Topic / Area

  • One sentence stating the focus.
  • 3–5 keywords.

✦ Research Question / Problem

  • 1–2 sentences clearly stating the core question or hypothesis.
  • Must be specific and testable.

✦ Mini Annotated Bibliography (at least 3 sources)

For each source:

  • Include full citation
  • Outline key contribution of the study
  • Explain how they are relevant to your project
  • Optionally, include Method/Data that you will use in project
  • Check here for published conference proceedings in computational linguistics (Note that you’ll be asked to write either 4 or 8 pages as a final paper)

✦ Evaluation (1 point each; 4 points in total)

  1. Clear topic & focused research question
  2. Relevant and correctly formatted sources
  3. Clear explanation of contribution & relevance
  4. Overall clarity and feasibility