Academic Writing Getting Published in International Journals
and Conferences Dr.Natalia Konstantinova1 1Research Institute in
Information and Language Processing University of Wolverhampton 12
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Outline 1 Introduction 2 Research Papers Typical structure
Structure: More Details 3 Questions? Dr.Natalia Konstantinova
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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; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova
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Introduction Where to publish? Dierent 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; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova
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Introduction What to check before submitting? Avoid poor
quality journals and conferences; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova
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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; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova (University of Wolverhampton)
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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; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova
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Introduction Review Address reviewers comments: Dr.Natalia
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Research Papers Typical structure Typical structure Title
Abstract Introduction Related work Resources/data collection
Methodology Evaluation Error analysis Conclusions and future
research Bibliography Dr.Natalia Konstantinova (University of
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Research Papers Structure: More Details Title and Abstract
Should reect the content of the paper; Abstract should present the
main idea of the paper and its main contribution; Dr.Natalia
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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 dierent from everything
that was done before; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova (University of
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Research Papers Structure: More Details Related work(2)
Mistakes: Not up-to-date research; Too narrow; Too broad; Fail to
show the dierence with your research; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova
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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,
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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; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova (University
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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 dierent 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? Dr.Natalia Konstantinova (University of Wolverhampton)
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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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Research Papers Structure: More Details Conclusions and future
work Make nal 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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Research Papers Structure: More Details Bibliography Should be
consistent; Should contain all needed information (pages, publisher
etc.); Better use some reference style; Dr.Natalia Konstantinova
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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! Dr.Natalia
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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/
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Questions? Questions Dr.Natalia Konstantinova (University of
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