Introduction to Technical Paper Writing
- 1. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Technical Paper Writing Govind Center for Computational Engineering & Networking Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 2. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Objective Significance of paper writing Components of a paper Types of papers Don’ts in paper writing Reproducibility of research Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 3. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Significance of paper writing Why to write papers? Helps to bring standards in research methodologies (State of the art measures) Helps in jointly solving scientific problems Is a measure to assess the research capabilities of a person When to write papers If you have solutions (close to solution) in the problem, you can write a paper Depends on the volume of work and strength of theoretical basis you can send to journal, conference or rapid communication letter Conferences are time bound and hence we should be aware of paper submission deadlines Journals and rapid communication letters are open to paper submissions through out the year Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 4. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Significance of paper writing Where to Submit When you submit a paper to a conference or a journal, make sure that the paper undergoes a peer review Hence, be ware of popular journals and conferences of your area of research For instance, INTERSPEECH, ICASSP, IEEE transactions on audio, speech and language process, speech communication, etc. are the popular publications in the speech processing area Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 5. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Components of a paper Title Authors name list and affiliation Abstract Introduction Basis & Description of the proposed method Experimental Results (Comparison with the state of the art method) Summary & Conclusions References Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 6. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Types of papers Attributes conference journal Letter No.ofPages 4-6 >8 2-4 Description A novel idea Detailed presentation of A novel idea supported by theory and supported by Experimental results experiments experimental results Decision binary Series of revisions Binary Criterion on presentation of the based on the review and Based on first paper in the conference do the revisions peer review until reviewers are satisfied Dur.publication 3-4 months 6-8 months 2-6 weeks Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 7. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Dont’s in paper writing Plagiarism Considered as a serious offense in paper writing Copying the materials of other papers without permission of acknowledgement Even copying the materials of your own published paper is also treated as self plagiarism Falsification quoting the results without conducting experiments Manipulating the actual results Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 8. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Avoiding Malpractices in Paper Writing Always acknowledge, even if you are using materials of others 0 thpos th neg K mean nop Figure: Locating the instant of glottal opening in a short time segment of LP residual (Figure used with the permission of J. P. Cabral). Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 9. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Reproducibility of research Now people are talking about reproducible research This means how well the figures, tables and other results presented in your paper can be regenerated by a third person other than the authors Increases the credibility of your paper and hence increased citations Patrick Vandewalle, Jelena Kovacevic and Martin Vitterli , "Reproducible research in signal processing", IEEE signal processing magazine, Vol. 26, No. 3 , pp. 37-47, May 2009. Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 10. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Reproducible research in papers from CEN Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 11. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Papers From CEN in 2014 Area Conferences (2014) Journals NaturalLanguageProcessing 2 2 ImageProcessing 0 2 SpeechProcessing 1 3 + (3 papers submitted) WirelessSensorNetworks 2 2 RemoteSensing 0 2 Robotics 0 1 Security 2 1 CompuationalChemistry 0 3 Publications Conferences (2013) Journals (2013) Total 14 17 one paper published in INTERSPEECH 2013 which is one of the prestigious conferences in the area of speech processing Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- 12. Objective Why, When and Where to Publish Components of a paper Types of papers Malpractices in paper writing Reproducible Research Statistics of Papers from CEN Examples Govind CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham