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I want to write a research paper that is a systematic survey (a meta-analysis that summarizes the state of the art) of Question Answering in the Semantic Web but I find it hard to find exact guidelines on how to write a survey. Can someone provide me with a document that details the research process for a survey in computer science? The best match I found so far is https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vAxkEX9A_O7lR276DjNLO4p9DR7z5SiBGXSoi6pbjg/edit but it is written for the field of health care and I don't know if there are different standards in computer science.

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Hello, and welcome to Computer Science Stack Exchange. While this is a very good question, it may not be a good fit for this site, unless you can demonstrate that your difficulty has to do with the content of the topic, per se. Even then, this question is likely to solicit opinion and debate at worst, or a list of approaches, at best. Please see if you can clarify your question by explaining why a student, practitioner or researcher in computer science would be better-suited to answer this than anyone with experience writing survey papers, it might make this a better question. – Patrick87♦ Feb 19 at 17:09
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This may be better suited for Academia, if for Stack Exchange at all. – Raphael♦ Feb 20 at 6:58
Thank you Patrick for explaining why you think the question doesn't fit. However I think that is a misunderstanding. I do not want a debate about it but an official or reputable and acknowledged document that details what standards exist in the field of Computer Science for systematic surveys (or the answer that there is no standard). As in health care such documents exist, I assumed they do for CS as well and because health care and CS are different I am not sure if I can use health care guidelines for a different field (e.g. I guess health care has much more experiments and ethics). – kirdie Feb 25 at 11:30
P.S.: Ah I think I understand now. This forum is just for the discussion of computer science problems and not on the academic part? Then I will ask the problem in Academia (but then have the problem that there will be a much lesser computer scientist percentage I guess). – kirdie Feb 25 at 11:37

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Designing a survey, collect the data, and making sure the results are meaningful, is what the people doing polling make a living off. It is not a job for amateurs, get in touch with somebody in the know.

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This is not really a helpful answer. How does one become a professional? Are there books to help an amateur? – Dave Clarke Feb 19 at 16:19
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In fact, the question is about writing a literature survey paper, not conducting a poll! – Dave Clarke Feb 19 at 16:34

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