How to write a scientific paper Fausto Giunchiglia

How to write a scientific paper Fausto Giunchiglia Literature: Jeffrey A. Lee, The scientific endeavor, 2000 Bruno Buchberger, Thinking Speaking Writing By Fausto Giunchiglia and Alessandro Tomasi

Index: 1. Role of Papers 2. Analysis of audience 3. Analysis of kind of paper 4. Defining Goals 5. Structuring Papers 6. The Process 7. Style

1. Role of Papers

1. Role of Papers “I have got the idea but I cannot express it” This is nonsense

1. Role of Papers Role of parts of Papers: • support the process of expressing an idea • show your result • relate to existing scientific work • enable readers to learn / continue their work

2. Analysis of audience

2. Analysis of audience “First I’ll write the paper and then I’ll publish it” This is nonsense

2. Analysis of audience Depends on the audience: • Age • Scholarship • Background • Scientific Community

3. Analysis of kind of papers

3. Analysis of kind of papers 1. Tech. Rep 2. Workshop Paper 3. Top Conference 4. Journal 5. Invited Talks

3. Analysis of kind of papers Kind of publications • archival publications • not archival publications • ISBN/ISSN publications

2. Analysis of kind of papers It’s the writer’s business to make the reader’s life as easy as possible

2. Analysis of kind of papers A Paper must be: • Self-Explanatory • Self-Contained

2. Analysis of kind of papers To plan long in advance is the difference from accepting and rejecting 3 months [for a PHD student] Decide which conference to submit the paper 3… 6 months [for a PHD Student] Write it Deadline of a Conference

4. Defining Goals

4. Defining Goals The process from Analysis to Synthesis Until you have written a paper, the research is not finished

4. Defining Goals One paper one message Ask yourself: • What is your goal? (a new technique, a new experimentation) • What did you try to do? • What have you done? • How did you do this? • What is the core idea?

4. Defining Goals Message = Core Idea = Goal • A goal may be a sub-goal of another goal • A goal may be a prerequisite for another goal

5. Structuring Papers

5. Structuring Papers After defining your goal, you can start working on the structure of the paper 5. 1 Coarse Grained 5. 2 Fine Grained

5. Structuring Papers Do the Writing according to the following Sequence 1. Tentative Title A 2. Write your Main Idea D 3. Write Introduction C 4. Write Conclusions E 5. Finalize the Title A 6. Write the Abstract B

5. Structuring Papers 1. Title A 2. Abstract B 3. Introduction C 4. Work out of main idea 5. Details of main idea D 6. Conclusions E 7. Appendixes F

5. Structuring Papers In Title, Abstract, Introduction, Conclusions - same thing at different levels of detail - different purposes

5. Structuring Papers 1. Title: A short sentence with the description of your work 3 -5 words Goal: convince reader to read abstract A

5. Structuring Papers 1. Title Structure: 1. Name of the problem solved 2. Data Domain 3. Solution A

5. Structuring Papers 1. Title Structure: Example 1. Data Domain Data Coordination in Peer-to-Peer Data. Base 2. Name of the problem to be solved: 3. Peer-to-Peer Data. Base 3. Solution: 4. Semantic Matching in Heterogeneous DB’s A

5. Structuring Papers 1. Title Structure: how to find a title A table with problems, solutions and domains: Problems Solutions Domain Heterogenity DB Matching P 2 P Database … Semantic Matching Bioinformatics … Title is a combinations of this words… … A

5. Structuring Papers 2. Abstract A paragraph with the description of your work 10 lines Goal: convince reader to read the paper B

5. Structuring Papers 2. Abstract Components 1. Name of the Problem Solved 2. Data Domain 3. Solution 4. What is new 5. NO CITATIONS B

5. Structuring Papers 3. Introduction Some paragraph with the set of goals of your work 1 page Goal: establish main message of paper C

5. Structuring Papers 3. Introduction C 1. [Context + to get the idea] 1 paragraph (NO citations) 2. Problem + Citations ≤ 20 lines 3. Approach + Solutions ≤ 20 lines 4. [Why you are novel] 5. Structure of the Paper, by sections ≤ 20 lines 6. [Auxiliary Material (Notations, 7. Observations, How to read it, …)]