Formal Requirements
This page lists the formal requirements for your written project report.
If you fail to comply with any of these formal requirements, we may return your report without grading and ask you to make the necessary changes before resubmitting it for one of the upcoming examination opportunities. Therefore, please make extra sure that your report fulfills all the formal requirements before you submit it!
Format
You must use the ACL paper style template and submit your report as a single PDF document via Lisam.
Page Limit
Your report must consist of 3–6 pages of content (text, tables, figures), plus unlimited pages for references. You can add additional data in an appendix after the references, but your report must be complete without the appendix, and materials in the appendix do not count for the assessment criteria.
No! This is a strict limit. It does not matter how complex your project was or how many results you have; selecting which results to present and how to make efficient use of space factors into the assessment. This also mirrors how actual academic papers are written – conferences always have a strict page limit on all submissions!
Title and Abstract
Find a proper title for your report that expresses what your project was about. Your report must also include an abstract, no longer than 200 words, that provides a concise summary of your project’s purpose, method, and main results. The abstracts of all projects may be published on the course website.
References
Whenever you use ideas, code, or text from others, you must appropriately cite your sources. Use a consistent citation style. We recommend you use the ACL style that is used by the ACL style files, but you can any style you like as long as you use it consistently. For datasets or software that you used, check if there is a recommended way to cite them (e.g. in a “README” file); if there isn’t, it is also fine to just provide the URL in a footnote.
Code
In your report, you must include a link to a repository containing the code that you wrote for the project. This repository can be either on GitHub or on LiU’s own GitLab server. If the repository is private, you must grant the teachers read access.
Declaration of AI Use
As the last section in your report before the references, include a section where you declare if and to what extent you used generative AI while working on the project (see @sec:cheating for allowed and disallowed uses of AI). This section does not count towards the page limit of your report.
Proofreading
Finally, make sure to proofread your text for issues with spelling and grammar before you submit. Consider a dedicated tool like Grammarly or Wordtune, or seek help from LiU’s Academic English Support, which offers guidance and workshops to help you improve your language and writing skills.