Paper Commentary Outline

• What is the research goal?
  What question(s) is the author trying to answer?
• What methods are being applied?
  What methods is the author applying to answer the question?
• What are the research results?
  A paper can contain many different kinds of results (E.g.: applied results (efficiency or accuracy), theoretical results (a theorem was proven), etc.)
• What claims are made in the paper?
  For theoretical papers, what results are proven?
• How are these claims supported?
• What reasonable claims and results are missing from the paper?
• What would be reasonable next steps for the research?

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