This page describes policies for CS224N / Ling 237:

• Grading
• Regrading requests
• Late Day Policy
• Homework Collaboration Policy

Course grades will be based 66.67% on 4 homeworks (16.67% each) and 33.33% on the final project.

If you feel you deserved a better grade on an assignment, you may submit a regrade request in writing to the TA responsible. Your request should briefly summarize why you feel the original grade was unfair. Your TA will take a day or two to reevaluate your assignment, and then issue a decision. If you're still not satisfied, you can then appeal (again, in writing) to Prof. Manning.

Note that in regrading an assignment, we may reevaluate any part of it, not just the part you bring to our attention.

All assignments are due at 5pm on the assigned due date. A grading penalty will be applied to late assignments. We recognize that students may face unusual circumstances and require some flexibility in the course of the quarter; therefore each student will be granted a total of five free late (calendar) days to use as he or she sees fit. Once these late days are exhausted, any homework turned in late will be penalized 20% per late day. However, no homework will be accepted more than three days after its due date. Each 24 hours or part thereof that a homework is late uses up one full late day.

To hand in a late homework, write down the date and time of submission, and leave it in the submission box outside Prof. Manning's office (Gates 158). It is an honor code violation to write down the wrong time.

Late days may be used for the final project writeup; however, no writeups will be accepted after Monday 6/6/05. If a team project is submitted late, late days are deducted from each team member's balance. Altruistic team members are allowed to "donate" late days to a collaborator if they wish.

Please ask if you have any questions about the homework collaboration policy, and make sure you adhere to it.

Programming assignments

Each of the four homeworks involves a substantial programming project. You're free to work alone, but you're also allowed (and encouraged) to work in pairs. If you work with a partner, you'll be writing code together and reporting the same results; however, each partner must submit an independent write-up.

Revised 4/29/05: For assignments 3 and 4, partners may submit joint write-ups.

Written questions

The homeworks may also include some written questions which are not directly related to the programming project, or which are more theoretical in nature. You are allowed to discuss such questions with anyone you like; however:

1. Your submission must list anyone you discussed problems with.
2. You must write up your submission independently, and you are not allowed to take detailed notes in any such discussions that will appear verbatim in assignment write-ups. In other words, you should understand the solution well enough in order to reconstruct it by yourself.

Final project

For the final project, you are allowed (and encouraged) to work in teams of up to 3. In addition, teams will submit a single, joint write-up for the final project (in contrast to the programming assignments). Ordinarily, all team members will receive the same grade for the final project (though we reserve the right, in case of egregiously unequal contributions, to assign different grades to different team members).