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Identifying and Reading Research Papers By Andrew Suh and Zhongping Zhang What is the goal? Assigned readings for class, research, etc. Surveying the literature of a new field/area Keeping current with the field Just

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Identifying and Reading Research Papers

By Andrew Suh and Zhongping Zhang

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What is the goal?

  • Assigned readings for class, research, etc.
  • Surveying the literature of a new field/area
  • Keeping current with the field
  • Just interested?
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Places to find Papers

  • Publication venues (conferences, journals, etc.) that

are common in the area

  • Non-Peer Reviewed (but easy access): arxiv
  • Common Search Tools: Google Scholar, CiteSeerX,

WorldCat, etc.

  • BU Library offers access to many sources that are

behind a paywall

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Identifying Papers

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Search Tips

  • Search technical keywords that come up repeatedly
  • If just starting out, look for “survey” papers
  • Depending on technical background, advanced

course notes can be helpful

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Checking References

  • Which papers are referenced the most?
  • Which authors’ names keep coming up?
  • Which peer-reviewed venues are papers published?
  • What works appear in the the “Related Works”

sections?

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What’s Worth Reading?

  • Don’t read everything! Do a first skim before you

commit.

  • Keep a bibliography of papers you’ve read/skimmed

with some short notes about them.

  • Talk to people!
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Reading Papers

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Reading Papers

  • Related Work
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Experiments
  • Conclusion & Future Work
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Reading Papers - Related Work

Related Work 1）Familiar with the topics 2）Unfamiliar with the topics 3）Importance to your own research

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Reading Papers - Abstract

Abstract (Most Important Part) 1）Definition of the problem 2）Downsides or vacant research areas of the previous approaches 3）Novelty and contributions of this paper

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Reading Papers - Introduction

Introduction: 1）Similar with Abstraction 2）More specific details like motivation, contribution, high-level method structures, etc.

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Reading Papers - Methods

Methods 1）New mechanism? 2）Mathematical Derivation or Empirical Improvement 3）Generalization

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Reading Papers - Experiments

Experiments 1）Experiment Settings 2）Quantitative Results 3）Ablation Study 4）Qualitative Results

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Reading Papers - Conclusion & Future Work

Conclusion & Future Work 1）What can I learn from the paper? 2）How to improve the approach? 3）Can the approach be applied on any other research topics?

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Sources

http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~pwlfong/CS499/reading-paper.pdf https://cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/classes/phd/Hints-Read.html https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~litman/courses/cs2710/papers/howt

  • readacspaper.pdf

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadP aper.pdf