Notes on research projects at Lambda-Lab

Setup

Create an Overleaf project, use X-Y as project title (replace X by msc-thesis or bep or your overarching research topic; replace Y by the specific topic of the paper/report) and invite me to it.
- Every section/chapter gets at least two rounds of comments.
Use GitHub to keep track of your project and add me to your project.
- Add a README.md where you keep track of the meetings we had and what we discussed (action points to take).
- Add a folder papers where you keep track of all the papers you read for your project.
- Add a folder code to keep track of all your code.
- When you run any experiments, keep track of which code version you ran (use hash commits or tag the repo).
For MSc thesis students only: make sure to submit the two required forms on time (one to form the thesis committee and one to fix the defense date).
If several people work together on the project and aim for 1+ publications, settle on the order of authors at the start of the project. Note: it is possible to have several first authors on a paper with footnote such as Equal contribution.

How to approach an applied ML project
Book on Speech and Language Processing
Book on Search User Interfaces: very good starting point for those wanting to dive deeper into search engine interfaces
Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users: a must-read book for those interested in designing interactive IR studies
An opinionated guide to ML research
How to write code for NLP research
How to come up with research questions!
Which papers can I read to catch up on the latest trends in NLP?
Troubleshooting neural nets: a handy guide if you find yourself in neural IR land and need to debug your models!
NLP recipes in Jupyter notebook form