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English for Computer Science

Lecture 6

Reading CS Papers (2)

Making Use of Section Titles Adjusting Your Pace Bits and Bytes Reading Practice

Making Use of Section Titles

Sections titles are there to help you, not for decoration.

A quick glance of all the titles and subtitles help you locate important information.

Making Use of Section Titles

Example

1. Introduction2. Kernel Methods3. Related Work4. Kernel Relation Detection

4.1 ACE Relation Detection Task4.2 Definitions4.3 Syntactic Kernels4.4 Composite Kernels

5. Experiments5.1 Corpus5.2 Results

6. Discussion7. Further Work

Adjusting Your Pace

You don’t always have to read every word of a paper.

Skip or skim some parts if they are unimportant or uninteresting.

Slow down at the sections between “related work” and “experiment” / “conclusion”.

Bits and Bytes

What if you can’t focus?

Your brain is not a CPU. Don’t practice multitasking.

Start training with a collection of.

Force yourself to read more or faster than you normally can.

Bits and Bytes

What if you find unknown words?

Consult your dictionary only if necessary.

Don’t always jot down Chinese meanings.

Refer to Lecture 2 / “Understanding Unknown Words”.

Bits and Bytes

What if you can’t read fast?

It’s OK to read a paper slowly.

Start with short papers to build your confidence.

Read survey papers of a more familiar subject.

In-Class Exercise

Read the following section titles and write about your reading plan.

1. Introduction

2. Motivation

3. Problem Definition

4. Proposed Solution

5. Experimental Setup

6. Results and Evaluation

7. Conclusion

Reading Practice

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I read part of it all the way through.

See you next time.

Samuel Goldwyn