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* thesis

BGU MSc thesis on the ROLL method (Ranking via Optimized Label Learning). See [[id:d23011c5-d925-4f14-b05a-0a1f4bdbe860][impl]] for the implementation project this thesis documents.

** Architecture

- =main.tex= — root document; defines all title/author/supervisor commands, includes all chapters
- =Main_pages/= — cover_page, title_page, abstract, acknowledgements, abstract_heb, cover_heb
- =content/<chapter>/= — one folder per chapter with its own .tex file
- =content/images/= — shared image path (set via =\graphicspath=)
- =bibliography/thesis.bib= — references
- =bibliography/unsrtnat_adjusted_for_bgu_thesis.bst= — custom BGU bibliography style (do not edit)

** Conventions

- Thesis metadata (title, author, supervisor, month, year) defined as commands at top of =main.tex=
- Hebrew title/author/supervisor have =he= suffix commands (=\thesistitlehe=, etc.)
- Both English and Hebrew ToC, abstract, and cover pages are required by BGU
- Chapters added via =\input{content/<chapter>/<chapter>}= with a matching =\addtocontents{tocheb}= line for the Hebrew ToC
- Build engine: pdflatex (uses =\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}=, not xelatex)

** Gotchas

- Template uses =utf8x= inputenc, which requires the =ucs= nix/texlive package
- Hebrew rendering via =babel-hebrew= (pdflatex approach, not fontspec/xelatex)
- Example images in =content/related_work/images/= are from the template — safe to delete
- =flake.nix= uses =rec= on the derivation so =buildInputs= is in scope for PATH export

** Key Files

- =flake.nix= — Nix build; =nix build= produces =result/main.pdf=; =nix develop= for dev shell
- =flake.lock= — pinned to nixpkgs-unstable as of 2026-06-16
- =main.tex= — fill in =\thesistitle=, =\thesisauthorname=, =\thesissupervisername=, =\thesismonth=, =\thesisyear=

** Subnodes

(none yet)
* todo

** TODO Basic structure - take it into account
** TODO Import and make sense of all references
** TODO Continue to auto-summarize references continuously