/Dissertation

Primary LanguageTeX

Word counts

perl texcount.pl *.tex

University of Bristol dissertation template

This template is compatible with the Bristol regulations for both Postgraduate Taught (e.g. MSc) and Research Degrees (e.g. PhDs). These may be found at the following links:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/academic-quality/documents/taught-code/annexes/dissertations.pdf http://www.bristol.ac.uk/academic-quality/pg/pgrcode/annex4/

The template also seems appropriate for undergraduate dissertations (for integrated masters degrees), as the format of these is not strictly specified.

Using xparse

The template is based around xparse, which we recommend all students learn, by reading the manual.

Using latexmk

The template supports latexmk for compilation. After installing your favourite TeX distribution, just run

latexmk

to compile, and

latexmk -c

to clean the repository.

Bibliography

The template has been prepared to use biber to generate citations from BibTeX.

Put your BibTeX source in refs.bib. Then, within the main text of your thesis, use

\textcite{qian_2021}

or

\parencite{qian_2021}

or get a textual or parenthetical citation respectively.

The default style is ACM citation style. The document class option ieee switches the style to the IEEE reference style.

Unicode

Finally, if you would like to use Unicode characters, latexmk can be instructed to use xelatex by changing the relevant line of the latexmkrc file:

$pdf_mode = 1; # pdflatex is 1, xelatex is 5

TODO

I wanted to clarify that the latex template has been provided by the course manager of the MSc project course. All students in the MSc Computer Science program have been given access to this template in our Teams group. I just wanted to inform you and I will still update it.

Based on the meeting discussion, I will do the following updates:

  1. Modifying a latex template to include a standard citation format.
  2. Update the title and abstract sections
  3. Make the Introduction and related work sections longer.
  4. Use passive term or "we".
  5. Pick an epoch for the score report and add the reason to it
  6. Add descriptions for every model in every score table
  7. Enhance the visualization of the attention map:
    1. Enhance the heatmap drawing
    2. Resize the frame, use only 4 frames for a video
    3. Add some fail examples
  8. Add the result of the new SOTA and add it to the discussion section