Action items before your presentation

• Read your selected paper carefully, and discuss it within your group to help each other get a good grasp of the problem, method, and results.
• Prepare a presentation to present the paper in the classroom.
• Compile a list of questions and discussion points before the presentation.
• One working day before your presentation, share the presentation, discussion points, and questions with your TAs and lecturers using your Mattermost group channel (each group has its own channel). They will provide you with feedback if needed.
• At your will, choose one of your teammates as the moderator whose task is to manage the flow of discussion.
• At your will, choose another teammate as a transcriber who can take notes of the discussion. You will use these notes in your report of the discussion.

Be prepared to answer the audience’s questions about the work you present!

Presentation must-haves

For the presentation itself, make sure to at least include the following information about the paper. The rest depends on your creativity and style.

Full title of the paper

Paper

• Appeared in (name of conference/journal)
• Cited citation count
• Why is it important?

People

A brief profile of the main authors

Motivation

Why do this research? Why is it needed?

The problem

What exactly is the problem that is solved?

Research method

What does the paper do?

ML4SE techniques used

How does the paper use ML techniques to solve the above problem?

Evaluation

How do the authors evaluate their work?

Results

What is the highlight of the paper’s findings?

Implications

Why are the results important? What is their impact?

Technical questions

A list of questions to gauge the audience’s understanding of the paper.

Discussion points

A list of questions to trigger general discussions about the paper.

Summary of the discussion

to be filled in after the discussion by the discussion group

Action items after your presentation

Each responsible group must document the above, add a summary of highlights of the discussion in the classroom and return the report to the instructor for each discussed paper.