Top level skeleton for a research paper 
(please adhere to my writing guidelines, and research guidelines: http://jvgemert.github.io/links.html ) 

Try and fill out this document as complete as possible, and share an online version with all participants. This will become a living document, changing over time. 

High level story line

The story line is one of the most important tools in research: It helps to structure thoughts, meetings, the process, the research questions, and enormously helps the writing. It is normal that the story line changes/evolves many times, see: http://jvgemert.github.io/HowToDoResearchInDL-slides.pdf 

This is the typical structure of a story line; each element might take 1-3 bullet points.

 1.	Why interesting? What is the general setting/application. Why should people care.
 2.	How done now? The typical approach(es) to the setting in (1)
 3.	What is missing? What’s the problem in (2), and what consequences does this have.
 4.	Proposed solution. What do you do, and why does it solve the problem in (3)
 5.	Experimental questions. How do you evaluate experimentally that (4) solves the problem in (2) and it’s consequences in (3).

Important: The story line is stand alone: you cannot introduce a new term/concept before it has been introduced (by motivating why the term/concept is important).

Skeleton starts here:

S: Stand alone high level story line (1 bullet per topic; before using a new term/concept make sure to first motivate the term/concept (ie: what is it and why is it needed). Terms/concepts logically build/connect to earlier terms/concepts (ie: its a story). Have short “1-liners” per bullet point; correct grammar is optional; the whole story line should fit on half a page.)
 a)	a
 b)	b
 c)	c
 d)	d
 e)	….

T: Options for the paper title 
 a)	a
 b)	b
 c)	c

C: Contributions (try to have ~3)
 a)	a
 b)	b
 c)	c

R: Related work (one bullet point per topic, with as many topics as needed)
 a)	a
 b)	b
 c)	c
 d)	...

M: Goals for the method (Not what you do; but the goal of why you do)
 a)	a
 b)	b
 c)	c
 d)	...

E: Questions for the experiments (each experiment answers a question; 3 experiment types)
(Type 1: Does it do what you claim? Type 2: variations/baselines; Type 3: State of the art on 3 sets. You can have multiple type 1, 2, 3 questions. )
(link back to: Related work (baselines) in R, Contributions in C, Method in M)
 a)	Type 1: Q: 
 b)	Type 2: Q: 
 c)	Type 3: Q:
 d)	(You can have more..) 

L: Limitations L and their answers A (What will reviewers say; and what is the answer A)
 a)	L: XXX; A: 
 b)	L: XXX; A:
 c)	L: XXX; A: