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\title{Project Proposal}
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\section{Purpose and Goals}
Give an overview of the project purpose and specific goals. This section should normally not be more than half a page.
Goals can, but must not, be given in list form:
\begin{itemize}[noitemsep=0mm,topsep=2mm]
\item This is one goal. 
\item This is another goal.
\item \ldots
\end{itemize}

\section{State of the Art}

Summarize the state of the art in the research area of the project. Give key references. This section should normally not be more than half a page.
Be sure to use the right format for citations. Syntactic citations are part of a sentence: 
\begin{quote}
\citet{mcdonald05emnlp} introduced maximum spanning tree parsing.
\end{quote}
Parenthetical ctiations are added to support a sentence: 
\begin{quote}
We use maximum spanning tree parsing \citep{mcdonald05emnlp}.
\end{quote}
Note the placement of brackets in the two cases.

\section{Project Description}

Describe the project design including the following parts:
\begin{itemize}[noitemsep=0mm,topsep=2mm]
\item Theory and method: Describe the underlying theory and the methods that will be used.
\item Time plan and implementation: Describe the time plan and how the project will be carried out.
\end{itemize}
The project description should be the longest section, at least one and a half page, and should normally be divided into subsections.

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