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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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Note

Attendance at all practical sessions is mandatory. Missing sessions without prior approval will result in failure of the course.

Rules:

  1. Be On Time: Arrive within the first 30 minutes. Late arrivals beyond this will be marked absent.

  2. Stay at least 2 Hours: Leaving early without approval is considered non-attendance.

  3. Active Participation: Simply being present without contributing is not acceptable.

If You Cannot Attend:

  • Email [Instructor’s Email] before the session, explaining your absence, this will then be discussed with the teaching staff to see if an exception can be made.

Consequences:

Failure to comply with these rules will result in course failure, regardless of performance in other areas.

Take this seriously, no exceptions will be made.

Go here for the detailed Course Schedule.

Getting Started!

Form a group of 6

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With a basic understanding of the concepts and tools that you will use in this project, you now should proceed with installing all the needed software and tools on your device. Some will be re-used from the MAS course, but others are new. Go to [TBU] Project Installation which has all the details related to installation and computer setup and complete all instructions on this page.

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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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We encourage you to work on these assignments as a team as much as possible. Throughout the project go here for instructions on

[TBU]Your Project Pipeline .

Testing

Note

Section Goal:

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To complete this course, you must have participated in and completed the following:

  • 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.

Make sure to also check out the assessment rubrics to get a sense of how various parts will contribute to your grade.

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.