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Conclusion & Abstract. RESEARCH METHOD FOR ACADEMIC PROJECT I. Conclusion. The main purpose of “Conclusion Chapter” is to show how you have attempted to fill the gap on knowledge that was identified earlier and to clarify to what extent the study has been successful.
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Conclusion & Abstract RESEARCH METHOD FOR ACADEMIC PROJECT I
Conclusion • The main purpose of “Conclusion Chapter” is to show how you have attempted to fill the gap on knowledge that was identified earlier and to clarify to what extent the study has been successful. • Four basic steps to take in writing Conclusion: • Summarize your research • Spell put your contribution • State the limitations of your study • Suggest potential areas of further research
Task 1: Read through the following conclusion from an article “An ensemble approach for semantic assessment of summary writings” and identify the four different steps. CONCLUSIONS In this paper, we propose an ensemble approach which integrates two of the most effective assessment techniques of LSA and n-gram co-occurrence into an efficient technique for automatic summary assessment. Performance comparison between the proposed ensemble approach with other existing techniques has also been conducted. The proposed approach has achieved an overall accuracy of 96% as compared to the best existing technique, BLEU, which has an overall accuracy of 87%. For future work, as the techniques used and proposed in this paper are mainly based on latent semantic analysis or machine translation based evaluation techniques, we will investigate the effectiveness of using machine learning or statistical approaches for the assessment of summary writings. In addition, as our current approach only focuses on semantic assessment of contents, we also intend to develop a complete summary assessment system by incorporating an English language assessor and style checker.
abstract • The abstract is the last section of a thesis to be written. • It is written after the research has been completed. • It provides the reader with a summary of the contents of the thesis. • It is generally one of the first a reader will look at and therefore it is important that the Abstract gives the reader a good initial impression.
An abstract should ideally present these information, following the order in which the information is presented in the thesis: • The purpose/objectives of the research • The reasons/justifications why the research was carried out. • The research method/techniques employed. • The mains results and conclusion. • Recommendation
Task 2: Look at the abstract below, which is taken form an article “An ensemble approach for semantic assessment of summary writings”, and identify the information 1 – 5. Computer-assisted assessment of summary writings is a challenging area which has recently attracted much interest from the research community. This is mainly due to the advances in other areas such as information extraction and natural language processing which have made automatic summary assessment possible. Different techniques such as Latent Semantic Analysis, n-gram co-occurrence and BLEU have been proposed for automatic evaluation of summaries. However, these techniques are unable to achieve good performance. In this paper, we propose an ensemble approach, that integrates two of the most effective summary evaluation techniques, LSA and n-gram co-occurrence, for improving the accuracy of automatic summary assessment. The performance of the proposed ensemble approach has shown that it is able to achieve high accuracy and improve the performance quite substantially compared with other existing techniques.
Length • The length of a thesis is usually around 200 – 500 words. • It must include all the essential points with no redundant words or expressions.
Tense • Approach 1: which sees the abstract as a description of the thesis itself, i.e., the document that the abstract is summarising – present tense. • Approach 2: which sees an abstract as a summary of the research that is reported in that document – both present simple and past simple tenses. • The present is used for stating the purpose and for presenting the conclusions recommendations • The past is used to describe the method used and to present the individual findings.
Structure of the thesis • Title Page • Abstract • Acknowledgement • Table of Content • List of Figures & Tables • Main Text • References • Appendices
