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Identifying and reading research papers Guanting Chen, Zezhou Sun 01. 02. Overview Identify Papers CONTENT 03. 04. Go Deeper Go Further 1 Overview The facts about paper reading 2 Identify Papers Identify Papers Why do For

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Identifying and reading research papers

Guanting Chen, Zezhou Sun

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CONTENT

01.

Overview

03.

Go Deeper

02.

Identify Papers

04.

Go Further

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1

Overview

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The facts about paper reading

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2

Identify Papers

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Identify Papers Why do we need to identify papers?

  • For finding out papers interesting to you only, or
  • For filtering (identifying) papers close to your research field, or
  • For reference?
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How to Identify papers?

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3

Go Deeper

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Is this a good way in reading paper?

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What’s your purpose in reading papers?

This paper have similar idea to my paper... Keep up with state-of-art results... Keep cognizant in other research fields... Searching for my research topic... This paper is interesting to me...

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  • Abstract
  • Background
  • Problem statement
  • Technical details / Claims substantiation
  • Conclusion
  • Future works
  • References

Scenario 1

A student who is required to read a paper about the topic to be covered in lecture tomorrow

Scenario 2

A researcher who is looking for a new research topic or working on dissertation.

How would you read?

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Evaluation

Will you evaluate papers after reading? How important is it?

Some questions you might ask yourself.

  • Do they have significant research problem?
  • Are they new / surprising?
  • Are the claim valid / method correct?
  • Are they clearly presented?
  • Are they worth publishing / contribution significant?

How to evaluate paper you read?

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4

Go further

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  • What is the crux of the research problem?
  • Alternative approaches?
  • A better way of substantiation?
  • A good argument against the case made by author?
  • How improve the results further?
  • Applicable research results to other contexts?
  • Any open problems raised by this work?
  • Can we do better than authors?

Go beyond papers

To be more critical, your ideas synthesis process

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Share with us

Recipes help you read/understand papers

(Tools, methods, can be anything)

Experience of inspiring your own research idea

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Resources

1. Thoughts on Reading Research Papers https://cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/classes/phd/Hints-Read.html 2. How to Read a CS Research Paper? http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~pwlfong/CS499/reading-paper.pdf 3. How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists https://chem.utah.edu/_documents/undergraduate_site/How%20to%20critically%20read%20a%20scientific%20paper.pdf 4. How to read a vaccine safety study: an example. https://violentmetaphors.com/2013/09/08/an-example-of-how-to-read-a-vaccine-safety-study/ 5. How do I find and start reading research papers? https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-and-start-reading-research-papers 6. PhD Comics http://phdcomics.com/

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THANK YOU