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suflaj t1_j8qx0qv wrote

Reply to comment by mems_m in [P] Struggling with thesis idea and implementation by mems_m

As I've said, there is no reason you can't do something novel with that, you just can't do what something else has done with it.

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mems_m OP t1_j8qx61s wrote

the thing is that i find that almost everything i can do has been already done on the public datasets i find

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suflaj t1_j8qxasd wrote

That's more of an issue of you searching. You mention sentiment analysis, for example, but it is a problem that is considered to be solved for years. There is no novelty you could do here besides a bigger model.

Obviously you need to stop looking at what people have done, and start looking at what in their process of doing something they didn't do or did poorly. One such thing is tokenization of text. You can't tell me that it's all figured out.

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timelyparadox t1_j8qxcss wrote

Yes and finding small novel new things to do is big part of the way you show you are worth a masters degree

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redflexer t1_j8ryw02 wrote

Actually, i find this notion harmful. I consider senior PhD students to be able to assess whether an idea in their field is novel, feasible, and in the right scope given fixed resources. I would never expect that from Master students. That does of course not mean that students can’t have great ideas, but it’s not mandatory for a degree.

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