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LBSC 796/INFM 718R
Information Retrieval Systems
Spring 2011
Final Project Report

Your project report should essentially be a written version of what is in the slides in your class presentation. If you write it in Word, it should be easy to import graphs and tables from your slides. You do not need to duplicate information that is already in your batch evaluation report -- just include that entire report as an appendix, and refer to it as necessary.

• Describe the problem that you are solving, and provide the URL for your project's Web page (which should have the documents that you generated along the way along with this report). [~1 page]
• Describe the design of your system, including the interface, the query-time processing, and the indexing process. Don't get too carried away here -- there is no need to rewrite your entire system in words since if you need to be very specific about the way you have done something you can simply post the code on your project Web site. [3-4 pages]
• Describe the design of your user study (generally including: what documents and other system configuration settings you used, what you asked the users to do, how you organized a session, how you collected the data, how you analyzed your results, and what you learned. [3-4 pages]
• A summary of what you learned along the way. It might be easiest to organize this as bullet points, elaborating on what is in your slides. [~1 page]
• Some appropriate way of ending (e.g., remarks on limitations, one or more suggestions for future work, etc.) [0.5 page]
• As an appendix, your batch evaluation report (just for completeness).
• As an appendix, your presentation slides (only necessary if they contains things that are not convenient to include in your written report).

As with all project components, this report will be separately graded but the overall project grade will be holistic (not some formulaic combination of the graded parts).