Course overview for the Project Conversational Agents
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This page contains all pertinent project information. Go through it section by section to find out how to succeed in this course and find any relevant details you need to successfully complete this project.
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You and your team should now be ready to get started on developing your own conversational agent capable of recommending recipes from a given recipe database.
Your Pipeline
Building your Agent
The core of this project surrounds building a recipe recommendation agent as a team. There are different tasks that you will encounter:
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Completed the [TBU]Project Installation on your own device/laptop.
Signed up to the project’s and actively contributed to your group’s repository, see Commits.
Participated in the mandatory lab sessions twice a week, as also listed on the [TBU]Course Schedule.
Completed individually all the related to the materials provided to you.
Submitted as a team all [TBU]Project Deliverables before the project’s deadline.
Assessment and Grading
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Percentage
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Subject
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Grade Composition
Basic Conversational Agent: 30%
Extensions to the Agent (quality and originality): 30%
Written Report: 30%
Individual Quiz: 10%
A pass adds 1 full point to the grade.
A fail adds no points.
Practical Attendance:
Pass or Fail
Mandatory pass. A failure will lead to failing the entire course.
Midway Check-In Presentation:
Pass or Fail
Mandatory pass. A failure will lead to failing the entire course.
Due Dates
Group Formation
Due Date: Tuesday, 7 January 2024, by 13:30
Task: Form a group of 6 members (including yourself) to complete the project.
Project Preliminaries Quiz
Due Date: Sunday, 12 January 2025, by 23:59
Task: Complete a preliminary quiz to assess foundational understanding. Find project preliminaries here [TBA].
Midway Check-In Presentation and Basic Agent - Inclusion
Due Date: Friday, 17 January 2025, by 13:00
Task: Present progress and receive feedback on your project. Find more information here [TBA].
Conversational Agent Code Submission
Due Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2025, by 15:00
Task: Submit the code for the conversational agent. Find more information here [TBA].
Final Submission
Due Date: Sunday, 2 February 2025, by 23:59
Task: Submit the complete project, including the final report. Find more information here [TBA]
The work is graded with a mark from 0-100. There must be a minimum of 55 to pass the course.
Individuals may be rewarded a higher or lower grade than the group based on their effort and their contribution to the teamwork.
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Your main point of contact and question-answering will be during the 4 hour-long practical sessions on Tuesdays and Fridays. This is where most concerns about project content will be handled about project content.
For group, organizational, or absence-related issues please contact [Instructor’s Email].
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Plagiarism is not tolerated for in both reports and codecodes. You are welcome to use any code you see fit for your project, as long as you appropriately cite your sources both in the report and in the code itself (as comments). Behavior violating the VU rules for academic integrity will not be tolerated.