Week 28

Accomplishments
Our final paper is well on its way to completeness. We have everything transferred over from our other papers now we are just finishing odds and ends and struggling with ensuring our citations are correctly logged in Zotoro.
Here is an exert of our paper~
Question-and-answer (Q&A) websites like Stack Overflow require users to attach up to five tags when they submit a question. However, users may assign tags that are not relevant to the question. A better approach would be to recommend to users the most appropriate tags for their question and let them choose. The goal of this project is to combine newly developed natural language representations together with deep learning algorithms to improve the prediction accuracy of tags for Stack Overflow questions. We used word representations generated by word2vec and a Convolutional Neural Network. 
Weekly Goal
Finish the paper!

Week 27

Accomplishments
The STEM Showcase went well. We had a lot of young students come up to talk to us about our research, so hopefully we inspired some young programmers. We also sat down and started discuusing what will be needed in our final report.
Weekly Goal
Look through the papers we have written to submit to conferences and expand where needed for the final paper.

Week 26

Accomplishments
We presented at COFSP and were the second place team for our set of judges. We had a tough time presenting as one of our judges specialized in Natural Language processing and Deep learning and our other judge did not even know what Machine Learning is. We were given some great advice by the knowledgeable judge that we plan to implement during our summer extension.
Weekly Goal
We have one more day of presenting at our school's STEM Showcase.

Week 25

Accomplishments
This week was QUEST, a research competition at our university. We participated and presented to 2 judges, using all that we learned from our first conference. We were able to give informed presentations that had the judges asking us deep questions about our model.\
Weekly Goal
The COFSP conference is this weekend, so staying prepared to present. Also, including fasttext into our analysis.

Week 24

Accomplishments
I presented at the SIAM conference and was a participant in the BE (Broader Engagement) Program through SHI. I learned so much and made invaluable connections. I also was able to present in front of bigger audiences than I'd ever had the chance to so I was able to improve skills that can help me convey this research in the future.
Weekly Goal
It's spring break so we plan to FaceTime at our normal time and discuss any changes we want to make to the poster before our next conference and start to improve the code. We are hoping to fix the labeling problem when using fasttext soon.

Week 23

Accomplishments
Successfully presented both a 1 minute pitch speech and an hour long poster talk. We learned a lot about what we need to explain better, such as our evaluation metric and how word2vec works. We thought as it is an industry standard that more people would know what it was.
Weekly Goal
I am at SIAM this week with Alina presenting other research. I plan to focus on that presentation on Joint Sequence analysis and just take in all of the opportunities at this major conference.

Week 22

Accomplishments
The poster is done and the coding brought to a stopping point. We are preparing to present at the conference and have practiced the delivery. Some of the points we prepared to give are a through explanation of convolutional neural networks and how they can be used to solve our specific problem and an explanation of how we evaluated the success of our program
Weekly Goal
Enjoy the conference and present our project well.