Jan 16, 2025

The Introduction — Section in a Paper but also Tool for Discovering New Knowledge

A Discussion with Nan Jiang and Lin Tan

Nan Jiang and Lin Tan

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Summary

Listen to this interview of Nan Jiang, PhD candidate, and Lin Tan, Professor — both at Purdue University. We talk about their coauthored paper Impact of Code Language Models on Automated Program Repair (ICSE 2023).

Lin Tan : "In my research group, the procedure in every project is to write the Introduction early — very early, in fact. It's the first section I have my researchers think about, actually. Because, you know, a lot of people will imagine that the approach section is where you begin — basically, to write exactly what it is that you did. But the advantage of beginning at the Introduction is that you clarify the contributions, you define the problem and also understand well your reason for tackling it. So, typically some three months before the deadline, I have my researchers really start sketching the Introduction in the manuscript."

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