CSE 6331.002, Spring 2017

Research Paper Presentation Information

 

Each paper presentation slides should include a title page with the authors’ names and institutional affiliation, as well as the student’s name (presenter of the paper). The presentation should not exceed more than 15 to 20 slides. The slides should be made according to the UTA template which is available on the course website. Students need to submit their slides on the blackboard a day prior to their presentation day. For example: If John Doe is presenting a research paper on April 5th, 2017, then John Doe needs to submit his presentation slides on blackboard by April 4th, 11:59pm.

 

Each presentation has a maximum time limit of 20 minutes, which includes oral presentation and questions/answers.

 

The grading criteria for the presentation are:

1. Quality of Presentation Slides (40%): Transparencies should be well-prepared, neat, and understandable. Avoid too much or too little information on each transparency. You should emphasize the main concepts of the paper, its main research contribution, and how it differs from related work. An example to illustrate the paper’s concepts would be important to include in the presentation.

 

Your first slide should have your name, the paper title and full citation, as well as the affiliations of the authors. Your second slide should be the outline of your presentation. Following this, you should have several slides on introduction and background, then main concepts and contributions (with example), then comparison to related work, then conclusions (summary), followed by a slide containing the full citations of the other papers that you read that are related to your presentation topic.

 

2. Clarity of presentation and understanding of paper (30%): Try to make your presentation clear by including a useful example, and to understand the topic so you can answer any questions.

 

3. Main points of paper and comparison to other work (20%): Make sure you clearly specify the main contribution of the paper and how it relates to other work.

 

4. Time of presentation (10%): Your presentation should fit in the allotted time slot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSE 6331.002, Spring 2017

Research Paper Report Information

 

Each paper report should include a title page with the author’s name, institutional affiliation, student’s name (who presented the paper) and an abstract of no more than 300 words. All paper reports should be double-spaced and written in a standard 10- or 12-point font (e.g. Times New Roman, Cambria, etc.) with page numbers at the bottom of the page. Sources should be thoroughly and correctly attributed using an accepted international research citation format (e.g. Chicago/Turabian, MLA, ISA, APSA, IEEE). Either footnotes or in-text references are acceptable, but a paper should use only one format and should use it correctly and consistency. Citations should indicate authors, publication year, and page number (where appropriate). All papers should include a complete list of references at the end of the paper. A report should not be between 10 and 15 pages, where figures and tables do not count towards page limit.

 

Grading Criteria for Paper Reports:

1. Proper references (10%): The report should include proper references to the paper you presented, as well as the additional papers studied. A reference section should appear at the end of the report, and use one of the standard formats for references, such as the following:

 

[1] C.Chan, R.Boyd, and Y.Ioannidis. Hierarchical cubes for range-sum queries. In Proceedingd of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pages 675-686, 1999.

Or

 

[CBI99] C.Chan, R.Boyd, and Y.Ioannidis. Hierarchical cubes for range-sum queries. In Proceedingd of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pages 675-686, 1999.

2. Citations in the report (15%): In your report, whenever you describe some aspect that was derived from a particular reference, you must cite that reference in the appropriate sentence in the report. Citations are embedded within the sentence as follows:

… [1] … or … [CBI99] …

3. Clarity of report (20%): Try to make the presentation clear, explaining the main contributions of the paper and comparing it to previous work. There is no need to include examples from the papers.

4. Abstract and Introduction (15%): A short introduction (one or two paragraphs) to your report is very important to summarize (a) why the paper was written, (b) its main contributions, and (c) how it differs from other proposed approaches.

5. Body of report (30%): Expand on points (a), (b), and (c) in 5 to 10 double-spaced pages. Try to explain the main contribution of the paper (what the authors are trying to do); the approach they take to accomplish their goal; and how their approach differs from other approaches.

6. Conclusion (10%): Summarize your report. This should be similar to the introduction, but shorter since the reader will have already seen the report.