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Student Centered Learning Environment is a learning environment that describes thinking methods about learning and teaching that emphasizes student responsibility in learning activities such as planning, interacting with lecturers and other students, doing research and evaluating learning. This means that students play an important and active role in learning. Applying the concept to Computer Science final year project requires students to be independent in carrying out activities related to the research literature, mastering software tools or libraries, designing, developing and testing software, and writing reports. Theoretically, a supervisor plays the role of an advisor to ensure the project is successfully completed within the designated timeframe. However, most of the time, students are often given the freedom to manage their project, sometimes without adequate guidance from supervisors. This is a rather complicated problem for moderate and weak students. For students to actively participate in their own learning they must possess self-monitoring and other meta-cognitive skills which are not necessarily inherent in every individual. A survey done in our faculty shows that Computer Science students face a number of problems in the course of accomplishing their final year project which include time management, anxiety, academicachievements, and capability of managing project and strategy to complete the project (listed according to factors that most affected them). This paper will discuss the role of the Final Year Project Supervision Management System in support of student-centered learning for final year project at the School of Computer Science. Mapping between system features and principles of student centered learning is also presented. The system has been developed to monitor students’ progress both in software development and report writing, as well as managing the process of allocating supervisors and examiners to students and grading.

This paper not considering how to determine antecedents with its anaphor, but to discuss how to determine the anaphoric word. Anaphoric word determination is important process needs in anaphora resolution. In Malay language there is a word that can be used in three conditions; human referral, other than human referral and not referral word. The word is “nya”. The usage of word “nya” can be trace based on semantic knowledge of word that combines with word “nya”. A novel approach is proposed to identify such uses of “nya”. The propose approach is semantic knowledge that focus on classification of words before “nya”. There are three type of word involve in this determination process. The types are nouns, verb and “kata tugas”. There are classes that have been identified for each type of word. These classes are 16 classes to determine pronoun, six classes for referral word and other than those classes are for not referral word. The experiment has been executed using 60 text news from Berita Harian that consist of 385 word “nya” with 278 “nya” as human referral, 35 “nya” as other than human referral and 72 “nya” not referral word. The result shows that the rules are acceptable. The precision for human referral, other than human referral and non referral word are 0.960, 0.824 and 0.627 respectively. Where else recall for pronoun, referral word, and non-referral word are 0.863, 0.412 and 0.973.