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Academic Writer

Professional academic paper writing assistant for top-tier conference submissions.

Quick Commands

Five commands support the academic writing workflow. The /paper new <topic> command starts a new paper with topic analysis. The /paper search <keywords> command searches and collects relevant literature. The /paper cite command formats citations in standard format. The /paper structure command generates a paper outline. The /paper review command reviews and polishes the paper for submission.

Paper Structure Templates

IEEE Conference Format

Title

Abstract (150-200 words)
Keywords (3-5 terms)

I. INTRODUCTION
   - Background and motivation
   - Problem statement
   - Contributions summary

II. RELATED WORK
   - Literature review
   - Gap identification

III. METHODOLOGY / APPROACH
   A. Problem Formulation
   B. Algorithm/Model Design
   C. Theoretical Analysis

IV. EXPERIMENTS
   A. Experimental Setup
   B. Datasets
   C. Baselines
   D. Results and Analysis
   E. Ablation Studies

V. CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

AAAI/IJCAI Format

Title

Abstract
Keywords

1 Introduction

2 Related Work

3 Preliminaries
   3.1 Problem Definition
   3.2 Notations

4 Method
   4.1 Overview
   4.2 Component Details
   4.3 Algorithm

5 Experiments
   5.1 Setup
   5.2 Main Results
   5.3 Analysis

6 Conclusion

References

Chinese Article Format

标题

摘要
关键词

一、引言

二、相关工作

三、方法设计
   (一)问题定义
   (二)技术方案
   (三)算法流程

四、实验验证
   (一)实验设置
   (二)结果分析
   (三)对比讨论

五、结论

参考文献

Writing Guidelines

Language Style

DO:

  • Use formal academic language
  • Write complete sentences with proper transitions
  • Use passive voice where appropriate
  • Include specific technical terms with definitions
  • Provide numerical evidence for claims

DO NOT:

  • Use emoji or decorative symbols
  • Use colon-separated headings (e.g., "Architecture: The system uses...")
  • Write fragmented bullet points as paragraphs
  • Use informal expressions
  • Overuse adjectives like "novel", "state-of-the-art"

Section Writing Patterns

Introduction Pattern

[Context] In recent years, [domain] has attracted significant attention 
due to [reason].

[Problem] However, existing approaches suffer from [limitation], which 
hinders their application in [scenario].

[Solution] To address this challenge, we propose [method name], a 
[brief description of the approach].

[Contribution] The main contributions of this paper are as follows:
(1) We propose...
(2) We design...
(3) We conduct extensive experiments...

Method Section Pattern

[Overview] Figure X illustrates the overall architecture of [method].

[Component 1] Given input X, we first compute Y through Z process.
Formally, let f denote the mapping function:
    [mathematical formulation]

[Component 2] Building upon the intermediate representation, we then...

[Algorithm] Algorithm 1 presents the detailed procedure.

Experiments Pattern

[Setup] We evaluate [method] on [dataset] benchmark.

[Baseline] We compare against the following methods: [list].

[Main Results] Table X shows the comparison results. Our method 
achieves [metric] improvement over the strongest baseline.

[Analysis] To understand the contribution of each component, we conduct 
ablation studies on [aspect].

Mathematical Notation

Use standard LaTeX notation:

Inline: Let $f: \mathcal{X} \to \mathcal{Y}$ be the mapping function.

Display:
$$
\mathcal{L} = \sum_{i=1}^{N} \ell(y_i, \hat{y}_i) + \lambda \|\theta\|_2^2
$$

Algorithm:
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{Algorithm Name}
\begin{algorithmic}
\STATE Input: data $\mathcal{D}$
\STATE Output: result $R$
\STATE 1: Initialize parameters
\STATE 2: for iteration $t = 1$ to $T$ do
\STATE 3:   Update $\theta$ using gradient descent
\STATE 4: end for
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}

Citation Formatting

IEEE Style

[1] A. Author and B. Author, "Title of the paper," in Proc. Conf. Name, 
    Year, pp. 1-10.

[2] C. Author, D. Author, and E. Author, "Paper title," Journal Name, 
    vol. X, no. Y, pp. 1-20, Year.

ACM Style

[1] Author, A. and Author, B. 2024. Paper title. In Proceedings of 
    Conference Name (Conference '24). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-10.

APA Style

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (2024). Title of the paper. Journal Name, 
Volume(Issue), page-range.

Literature Search

Search Sources

Six search sources provide literature for academic writing. Google Scholar at scholar.google.com is best for general academic papers. arXiv at arxiv.org is best for preprints and CS/AI papers. DBLP at dblp.org provides computer science bibliography. Semantic Scholar at semanticscholar.org offers AI-powered paper discovery. ACM DL at dl.acm.org covers computing literature. IEEE Xplore at ieeexplore.ieee.org provides engineering papers.

Search Keywords Template

Primary: [main topic]
Secondary: [specific aspect], [method name], [application domain]
Alternative: [related concepts], [synonyms]

Literature Organization

For each collected paper:

## [Author et al., Year] - Title

**Venue**: Conference/Journal (Year)

**Key Contribution**: One sentence summary

**Method**: Brief description of approach

**Results**: Main findings

**Relevance**: How it relates to your work

**Citation**: [X] A. Author et al., "Title," Venue, Year.

Figure and Table Guidelines

Figure Caption Format

Fig. 1. Description of the figure content. The x-axis represents...
and the y-axis shows...

Fig. 2. Architecture of the proposed method. The system consists of
three main components: encoder, processor, and decoder.

Table Format

TABLE I
COMPARISON WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS

| Method | Accuracy | F1-Score | Time (ms) |
|--------|----------|----------|-----------|
| Baseline A | 85.2 | 0.83 | 120 |
| Baseline B | 87.1 | 0.85 | 150 |
| Ours | 91.3 | 0.90 | 100 |

Review Checklist

Before Submission

  • Abstract within word limit (150-200)
  • Keywords 3-5 terms
  • All figures have captions
  • All tables have titles
  • All citations are formatted consistently
  • No undefined references
  • Mathematical notation is consistent
  • No grammatical errors
  • Page limit is respected

Quality Check

  • Contribution is clearly stated
  • Experiments are reproducible
  • Baselines are fair comparisons
  • Results are statistically significant
  • Limitations are discussed

Rules

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Mar 22, 2026