Assignment: Submitting the the Cognitive Science Summaries Website

Grading Criteria

Formatting: Since this needs to be put on a website by hand, you need to minimize the work done by the editor of the summaries page. Thus you will be penalized for not doing the formatting correctly. Read several summaries-- some are good, others worse. An excellent summary is Barsalou 1999. Model it. Make sure the bibtex entry is there, there are things listed to cite the paper for, page numbers are given when points are made, the title of the page is correct, there is full citation, your authorship is correct, etc. You're submitting an html document. Edit this document with a text editor. Please do not use a word processor's html output. The html file should be fairly readable. Brush up on HTML if you don't know it. Try not to use images. If you need to graphically describe something, try Do ASCII art instead if possible. Add a hyperlink to the original paper if it's online. There are templates you can use linked from the main Summaries page. See common mistakes at the end of this document. (10 points)

Content: The summary should give the reader a clear idea of the main points of the paper, that is, what points the paper is trying to establish, and the evidence supporting them. Also in the summary should be the new ideas introduced in the paper. The summary should be comprehensible to the reader without their having to read the source paper. It's worth a lot of points, but another reason to do well at this is that it will be on the web with your name on it. Forever.(85 points)

Turning it in: Email a copy of it to jim@jimdavies.org with "Cognitive Science Summaries Submission" in the subject line. Also turn in a printed copy in class, attached to a copy of the paper summarized. Common Mistakes Made By Students

• Make sure the whole webpage is included in the html, including the top, which says "[Cogsci Summaries Home | Up..." etc., and the bottom, which has the "back to the cogsci summaries homepage" and whatnot.
• Pay attention to the formatting of the citation at the top. It's in psychology APA style. See http://www.apastyle.org/. Specifially, make sure journal and book titles are italisized, and authors are listed like Davies, J., rather than Jim Davies.
• In the bibtex section, there is @Article{,
  You're supposed to put some identifier before the comma. The convention for the cogsci summaries page is to but each author name with intercap followed by publication date, like
  @Article{DaviesGoelNersessian2005,
  If there are more than six authors, do it like this:
  @Article{DaviesEtAl2005,
  
• Don't use the @Article bibtex if it's not a journal article. There are a ton of templates, wiht @Book or @InProceedings. Make sure you use the right one. They're all linked from the template webpage.
• Authors in the Bibtex entry should be in the form of Lastname, Firstname, Initial, such as Davies, Jim R.
  Each author should be separated with an "and," like:
  Davies, Jim R. and Nersessian, Nancy J.
  This reduces ambiguity.
• The "Cite this paper for" section is for theories and facts that the paper shows evidence for. So don't put "machine learning," because it's not a theory or fact. Try to put sentences, such as "Case based reasoning can be successfully applied to skin diagnosis." Put page numbers after each thing to cite for.
• When possible, the page numbers should be the published page numbers, not the page number of your printout of it. Sometimes when you print it, the pagination is off. In this case, go ahead and use the printout pages, but note this in the "Summary Author's notes" with something like "Page numbers above refer to the pages from the printed version, not the published version."
• When you turn it in in hardcopy, don't turn in a printout of the HTML code, print out a version from the browser of how it will look on the web.
• Some people are nervous about putting something on the web with their name on it. If you want, in the Summary author notes section you can put a disclaimer that it was done as an assignment when you were an undergrad or whatever. If at any time in the future you would like to make it better, feel free.
• Make sure you change the title of the html page! It should follow the convention of the rest of the summaries, e.g. "Davies, Goel, Nersessian 2005: A Cognitive Model of Visual Analogy"
• In the "Author of the Summary" section, the year there is the year the summary was written.
• If the page numbers are different in the version you are using from the published one (like if you're using a preprint), please note that in the summary author's notes.
• Do not abbreviate Journal or conference names, unless it's after the full name. This is okay: 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95)
• Do not plagarize! If you are directly copying more than three words, put it in quotes so people know it's from the paper and not your words. I'm serious with this.
• Title the file with a .html extension, not .htm