Meeting 16

I tarballed and submitted my code archive earlier this week. I've found a couple of small things that could have been changed since then, but nothing major.

I emailed Ernesto my second draft of the dissertation - it wasn't quite complete, still needing the last few chapters, but the main content was there. Ernesto gave comments on structure and style that I've been working into it over the last few days.

During our meeting yesterday, we discussed some of his comments on the draft, then looked through the slides I'd made for my presentation (which has now been moved to the 1st of September). Ernesto gave ideas on how to improve headers and bullets, and gave me advice on how to pace myself during the talk.

Meetings No. 13-15

Over the last week, my meetings have consisted of discussion of my dissertation and (today only) my presentation.

Ernesto recommended that the main bulk of my report should follow the standard format of Background, Req Spec, Design, Implementation, Evaluation, instead of my suggestion to split the report into two parts: one for mining, one for comparing. The work I've done on the report so far (Background to Evaluation) has followed this suggestion and seems to work well.

My presentation is currently scheduled for the 30th of August. My second marker is someone I've never heard of, and my presentation session will include Pete Edwards and his students, so I'm sure to get some tough questions.

Current plan: get a decent amount of the dissertation written within the next few days, so that I have a good idea of the content to use for my presentation.

Meeting No. 12

Since the code for the system is nearly complete, Ernesto and I discussed the evaluation of the system that I will perform.

The idea is that for the two parts of the system (learning and comparing ontologies), I will determine how effective the system is, based on error and success rates. I'll also use the evaluation to generate statistical values for comparison rules, and to determine the thresholds (if any) that exist for KB sizes when using different comparison measures.