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Academic WritingGetting Published in International Journals and Conferences

Dr.Natalia Konstantinova1

1Research Institute in Information and Language ProcessingUniversity of Wolverhampton

12 April, 2014

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Outline

1 Introduction

2 Research PapersTypical structureStructure: More Details

3 Questions?


Introduction

Why to publish?

Share your knowledge with others;

Get recognition for your work, acquire new contacts;

Get feedback from the reviewers;

Add to your CV;


Introduction

Where to publish?

Different quality standards, selectiveness and impact:

Journals

more impact (especially long-term impact);more highly rated by selection/promotion committees;more thorough reviews;more space (usually about 20 pages);

Conference proceedings

faster process;quality of reviews depends on your luck;you have to pay conference fees;direct contacts can be made at the conference;


Introduction

What to check before submitting?

Avoid poor quality journals and conferences;


Introduction

What to check before submitting? (2)

Before sending check:

Where the proceedings are published/reputation of the journal;Programme committee;Submission topics;Submission guidelines;


Introduction

Review lifecycle

Submit a paper;

It gets assigned 3-4 reviewers;

Review process (conference: about 2 weeks- 1 month, journal: 2-3months);

Get decision (binary for conferences, n-ary for a journal):

Decline/reject;Revise and resubmit (cannot be accepted in the current form and needsrevision);Major (can be accepted but needs major changes);Minor (can be accepted but needs minor adjustments);Accept as it is;

Address comments of the reviewers and send paper again;


Introduction

Review

Address reviewer’s comments:


Research Papers Typical structure

Typical structure

Title

Abstract

Introduction

Related work

Resources/data collection

Methodology

Evaluation

Error analysis

Conclusions and future research

Bibliography


Research Papers Structure: More Details

Title and Abstract

Should reflect the content of the paper;

Abstract should present the main idea of the paper and its maincontribution;



Related work

We show awareness of the research in the area;

We describe existing methods;

We describe why our research is different from everything that wasdone before;



Related work(2)

Mistakes:

Not up-to-date research;

Too narrow;

Too broad;

Fail to show the difference with your research;



Data

Description of your data;

The way the data was collected (for example, the description of thecorpus or dataset);

If special annotation of the data was done (for example, guidelines forannotators, inter-annotator agreement ,etc.)



Methodology

How your experiment was done?

All the steps to re-produce it;

What rules/techniques you used?

Ideally other researchers should be able to reproduce your experiment;



Evaluation

A very important part of your research! Why do we need evaluation?

Allows to assess the results of a method or a system;

Allows to compare results of different methods and systems;

Allows to understand why method fails or which parts createproblems;

How the evaluation was done?

What metrics were used?

What are the baselines?

What gold standard?



Error analysis

Most probably your method gives errors;

Analyse them;

Try to group;

Try to explain why they occur;

Suggest ways to tackle them in the future research; Or describe whyyou cannot make it better;



Conclusions and future work

Make final conclusions about your experiment;

Was your hypothesis proved?

Did you get a better performance than someone else?

Why your performance is valuable?

Describe what you plan to do in the future;

Are you planning to address some shortcomings of the currentresearch?

Do you want to use some other data set?



Bibliography

Should be consistent;

Should contain all needed information (pages, publisher etc.);

Better use some reference style;



Tips

Make sure it is clear;

Readers should be able to re-produce your experiment;

English and formatting are important!

Negative results are still results! But! You need to have solidmethodology!



Further Links

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/pbailey/

sigir-paper-writing-tips.aspx?1702280376

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/paper.html

http://www.journalprep.com/FILES/How_to_Write_and_

Publish_an_Academic_Research_Paper.pdf

http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/

how-to-write-a-paper-and-get-it-published/


http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/pbailey/sigir-paper-writing-tips.aspx?1702280376

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/pbailey/sigir-paper-writing-tips.aspx?1702280376

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/paper.html

http://www.journalprep.com/FILES/How_to_Write_and_Publish_an_Academic_Research_Paper.pdf

http://www.journalprep.com/FILES/How_to_Write_and_Publish_an_Academic_Research_Paper.pdf

http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/how-to-write-a-paper-and-get-it-published/

http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/how-to-write-a-paper-and-get-it-published/

Questions?

Questions


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