Editing Authorship detection: 2010 group (section)

===Semester 2, Week 1===

====Jie Dong====
'''Progress and Status this week:'''
# First meeting with Derek, Brian and Maryam and other group member Leng and Tien-en.
# Derek, Brian and Maryam introduce us the basic idea of this data mining project
# The idea of authorship detection was introduced
# Several applications which data mining technique can be applied was mentioned
# Researches of past year students were mentioned and Maryam sent us several past year research report together with the code
# Research on the project, especially on SVM and some algorithms

'''Plan and Goals for new week:'''
# Prepare for the proposal seminar.
# Read research report from past years students.
# Understand project handbook.

====Leng Tan====
'''Progress and Status This Week'''

# the 1st meeting for the final year project was held with the supervisor, Prof Derek Abbot, co-supervisor, Dr Brian Ng, and Mrs Maryam, along with the team member.
# the initial project scope was introduced and general idea of the aim of the project is discussed.
# basic idea on the techniques of authorship detection is shown as well.
# several ideas for the future application of this project is highlighted.
# some hints on getting started was given which is to read Talis's final year report, which will be provided by Mrs Maryam.
# the first milestone of the project which is the proposal seminar is reminded.

''' Plan and Goals for Next Week '''

# fully read and understand Talis report.
# have a brief look on the code that will be supplied by Mrs Maryam.
# do some research on the background information of some controversial issues like the works on William Shakespeares, the Federalist Paper and the Letter to Hebrew.
# read through the project handbook of 2010 to have a rough idea of all the milestones of the project focusing on the project seminar.

====Tien-en Phua====
'''Progress and Status this week:''' 
# Met up with project supervisor, Prof Derek Abbot, co-supervisor, Dr Brian Ng, and Mrs Maryam
# Derek discuss the concept behind authorship detection
# Derek explains about multi-dimensional graphs to link a disputed text to a known author. 
# Discuss about possible future applications. Brian suggested code plagiarism and possibly music. 
# Was provided by Maryam with other projects by students and started to go through the report by Talis.  
# Went through the FYP Project handbook

'''Plan and Goals for new week:''' 
# Identity the methods Talis used in his report
# Research on various methods
# Read up on past works regarding authorship detection
# Research on controvesy