CS 8761 Natural Language Processing - Fall 2002 - MRD + Web => Corpus

Final Project - Stage I - Due, Wed Nov 27, noon

This may be revised in response to your questions. Last update Wed Nov 20 7:00 pm

Objectives

Revise you Beta submission in response to any comments I may have made to your group individually, and also the following general requests that apply to all teams.

Specification

Make sure that perldoc shows me the syntax of your functions. This can be via the SYNOPSIS feature or you can provide it via some other mechanism.

Provide at least 20 cases that will be executed via "make test".

Provide a simple menu driven interface that allows a user to use your module and query the dictionary without having to write code. Provide options that allow output to be written to a file. Make sure that all the major functionality of your program is supported, including the features below.

Add the following functionality to your modules if they don't already have it.

To summarize then, by noon on Wed Nov 27, you should submit a revised version of both of your interfaces that reflects the following:

1) syntax/examples of ALL supported functions included in perldoc documentation.
2) "make test" should execute at least 20 cases for both LDOCE and Big Mac.
3) provide interface program to LDOCE and Big Mac modules.
4) add functionality described above.

Submission Guidelines

Submit your modules to the web drop in two distinct tar files named for your team. Please submit your entire package. Once unpacked things should be structured such that I can install your module using the standard "3 step CPAN" install. The three steps are as follows.
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
I should not have to do anything else to get each of your modules installed. I should be able to include it in a program via the use command. Please provide some example usages in your documentation, and of course your test files will show how to use the code as well (see QueryData again as an example).

Make sure you team name, individual names, date, etc. are included in your source code. Your code may well end being distributed via CPAN so provide appropriate info about copyrights, distribution, etc.

Submit your LDOCE and Big Mac interfaces separately. Only submit 2 per team. Coordinate with your teammates so you don't have multiple submissions.

This is a team assignment. You are strongly advised to divide up the work of the project into tasks that can be carried out in parallel by various team members. All team members should be acknowledged in the comments, etc. and all teammates will receive the same grade. Do not work with other teams. Each team should operate independent of all the other teams. Make your own decisions as a team and do not be influenced by the decisions of other teams if you happen to hear of them accidentally. You are free to work with your teammates as closely as is necessary.

by: Ted Pedersen - tpederse@umn.edu