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How To Read A Paper

#+AUTHOR: Philip W. L. Fong #+CATEGORY: paper

Link: http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~pwlfong/CS499/reading-paper.pdf

Steps:

• Comprehension (/what is the plot?/)
  • What is the research problem / motivation?
  • What are the claimed contributions?
  • What is the evidence supporting the claims?
  • What are the conclusions?
• Evaluation
  • Is the research problem significant?
  • Are the contributions significant?
  • Are the claims valid?
• Synthesis
  • Look at it as an opportunity for new ideas
  • Alternative approaches, better approaches
  • Arguing against the paper
  • Any new open problems?
  • Can we do better?
• Review
  • Short essay reporting what you learned
  • Summary / Evaluation / Synthesis

Cross references how to read a book.

— Kunal