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\section{Purpose and Aims}
Give an overview of the project purpose and specific objectives. 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{Survey of the Field}

Outline previous research and results in the area of the project. Give key references. This section should be at most one 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:
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\item Theories and methods: 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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