Contents

• Research Paper: Improving Accuracy & Efficiency in Document Handling for Business Processes
• Sample Code (demonstrates extracting values from structured table data stored in spreadsheets)
• Sample Documents (fake order documents stored as scanned pdf documents, spreadsheets, and email messages)
• Presentation (slides created for a 15-minutes presentation of the research content)
• Research (downloaded copies of documents used as references)
• Guidelines (references for LaTeX styling of IEEE documents)

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Assignment

Course Project

The following gives and overview of a report structure. You can adjust to fit your needs.

• Abstract (0.5 page)
• Introduction (1 page)
• The Problem (1 page )
• Related work (2 pages)
• Your Idea or solution (1 page)
• The Details ( 5 to 8 pages)
• Conclusion and further work (1 page)

Grading Rubric

LEVEL	DESCRIPTION
(1) Poor	not relevant to the topic
(2) Marginal	not insightful
(3) Acceptable	general with details
(4) Good	summary with some details
(5) Honors	Summary presented as an abstract with details such as concepts, relevance, applications, etc.

Paper

	Poor	Marginal	Acceptable	Good	Honors
Originality of the work
Scholarly relevance
Professional/industrial relevance
Completeness of the work
Acknowledgment of the work of others by references
Organization of the manuscript
Clarity in writing, tables, graphs and illustrations
Presentation

Presentation

	1	2	3	4	5
To what extent does the student’s presentation communicate both the merits of the research project and the research process that the student went through to complete the project?
To what extent can the student communicate effectively about the project? Can the student provide cogent responses to questions? Can the student defend the research proposal suggestions made?
To what extent the student has displayed an extensive literature review when conducting the project?

Total: ??/15