The initial summary will be divided into separate pieces, so you learn how to identify the important parts of a paper and write in your own words about those important parts. These are questions that the authors should have answered somewhere in their paper. You should answer each question in 1 sentence in your own reformulation of their words. Do not copy their sentences directly.

Your Name:

• Problem: What is the overall problem the paper is addressing?
  

• Importance: Why is the problem important?

• Novel Contribution: What novelty do the researchers contribute beyond the state of the art in addressing that problem?

• Approach: What is their overall technical approach? That is, what is their key insight used and how do they justify it as a promising approach for this program?
  

• Evaluation: How did the researchers evaluate their efforts? What did they measure to answer what questions? on how many and what kinds of subjects?

• What overall conclusions did they draw from their evaluation results?

  What limitations or threats to validity do the researchers mention with their approach?

• Your Critique:

  Technical Contribution: soundness, novelty, significance of contribution, quality of evaluation

  What additional limitations do you think might also occur?

  Presentation: paper organization, ease of reading, sentence structure,...

• Discussion Questions: Write one interesting question to ponder with regard to this paper beyond content understanding: