1. Academic Writing
Getting Published in International Journals and Conferences
Dr.Natalia Konstantinova1
1Research Institute in Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
12 April, 2014
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2. Outline
1 Introduction
2 Research Papers
Typical structure
Structure: More Details
3 Questions?
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3. 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;
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4. 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;
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5. Introduction
What to check before submitting?
Avoid poor quality journals and conferences;
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6. 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;
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7. Introduction
Review lifecycle
Submit a paper;
It gets assigned 3-4 reviewers;
Review process (conference: about 2 weeks- 1 month, journal: 2-3
months);
Get decision (binary for conferences, n-ary for a journal):
Decline/reject;
Revise and resubmit (cannot be accepted in the current form and needs
revision);
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;
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8. Introduction
Review
Address reviewer’s comments:
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9. Research Papers Typical structure
Typical structure
Title
Abstract
Introduction
Related work
Resources/data collection
Methodology
Evaluation
Error analysis
Conclusions and future research
Bibliography
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10. 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 main
contribution;
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11. Research Papers Structure: More Details
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 was
done before;
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12. Research Papers Structure: More Details
Related work(2)
Mistakes:
Not up-to-date research;
Too narrow;
Too broad;
Fail to show the difference with your research;
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13. Research Papers Structure: More Details
Data
Description of your data;
The way the data was collected (for example, the description of the
corpus or dataset);
If special annotation of the data was done (for example, guidelines for
annotators, inter-annotator agreement ,etc.)
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14. Research Papers Structure: More Details
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;
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15. Research Papers Structure: More Details
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 create
problems;
How the evaluation was done?
What metrics were used?
What are the baselines?
What gold standard?
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16. Research Papers Structure: More Details
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 why
you cannot make it better;
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17. Research Papers Structure: More Details
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 current
research?
Do you want to use some other data set?
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18. Research Papers Structure: More Details
Bibliography
Should be consistent;
Should contain all needed information (pages, publisher etc.);
Better use some reference style;
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19. Research Papers Structure: More Details
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 solid
methodology!
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20. Research Papers Structure: More Details
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/
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21. Questions?
Questions
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