COMP364 Research paper presentation
The research paper presentation will summarize a state-of-the-art
research paper in the field of artificial intelligence. This
assignment may be completed individually or in pairs. Each team of
students will pick a different paper from the conference AAAI 2016,
read the paper and any necessary background literature, and present a
summary of the paper. The list of papers to choose from is available
in the
online AAAI
proceedings. (Note: You must choose a paper from one of the
"Technical papers" or "Special track" sections. In other words, the
paper must appear before page 3958 in the proceedings.)
In choosing a paper, note that you are not necessarily required to
understand all the mathematical details of the paper. In your final
presentation, you must be able to clearly explain:
- What is the problem the authors are trying to solve?
- What is the basic idea behind the authors' solution to this problem?
- How well does the idea work in practice?
There are two milestones related to the presentation, labelled PP0
and PP1. These milestones are described below.
PP0 (ungraded)
Notify the instructor and the class of the paper you have chosen.
Notification is by posting a reply to the "PP0: choice of paper for
presentation" forum on Moodle. Papers are selected on a first-come
first-served basis; you can't choose a paper that has already been
chosen by someone else. In your Moodle post, please give the title
of the paper and (if working as a pair) the names of both students
who will be presenting it.
PP1
The PP1 milestone is the presentation itself. A
detailed rubric for grading
of the presentation is provided. You may use any combination of
data projector slides, whiteboard, and speaking; use whichever
combination of media is most effective for delivering your
message. The most important points to observe are:
- Presentations are limited to 12 minutes, plus 3
minutes for questions.
- The objective of the presentation is to communicate the main
interesting idea of the paper to your classmates. You will need
to present sufficient background or explanatory information for
your classmates to understand the research, without wasting time
on unnecessary details. As already stated above, the presentation
must explain the main problem addressed by the paper, explain the
basic idea behind the solution, and report on the effectiveness of
the solution.