This page gives information on the paper critiques and in-class presentations for CS793.
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- The papers critiqued will also be presented in class
- The student presenting/critiquing the paper should be prepared to lead the in-class discussion that follows the presentation
- The critique is due one week after the presentation
- To be done individually
Format
- At most 2 pages
- Put yourself in the shoes of a reviewer for a conference or
journal
- Give constructive
feedback to the authors
- For every criticism, make a suggestion to improve the paper
- Mention also the good aspects of the paper
- If you don't understand something, mention it and explain why you
are having trouble understanding. It is the responsibility of the
author to make everything clear in the paper, therefore it is important
to point out the parts that are difficult to understand and why.
Suggested questions to structure your critique
Overview
- What's the paper about?
- What are the contributions?
- What's the take home message?
Significance and originality
- Are the ideas novel/original?
- Are the contributions significant?
Soundness
- Are the ideas presented technically correct?
- Are the algorithms correct?
Evaluation:
- What methodology is used for evaluation? Does it make sense for this application?
- If some assumptions are made, are they realistic?
- Are the results significant?
- Is the metholodogy properly applied in the experiments?
- Are the results properly presented or misrepresented?
- Is there anything missing that should have been presented
- Is the sample size correct?
- Is scalability demonstrated?
Related work:
- Is the paper properly situated with respect to related work?
- Is there a brief survey of related work?
- Do the authors explain similarities and differences with previous
work?
Readability:
- Is the paper well structured?
- Does the abstract properly and accurately summarize the paper?
- Do the introduction and conclusion clearly explain the
contributions and the take home message?
- Is the flow of ideas easy to follow?
- Is the paper well written?
- Are all the technical terms and abreviations explained?
- Are there important grammatical errors?
- Are there a lot of typos?
- In-class presentation of a paper
- Your presentation should be about 15-20 minutes long
- Your goal is to give the intuition behind the paper: what do you think the paper is about?
- Try to outline the basic structure of the paper, and give an idea of where the difficulties may lie
- You don't need to fully understand the paper to present it
- The presentation will be followed by a detailed discussion of the paper
- You don't have to make slides, but they can help
- Speak clearly, slowly and loudly!