情報工学英語English for Information Technology

第3回 Explaining concepts (1)

芝浦工業大学情報工学科

中島毅

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Today’s contents

• Feedback

• Practice

• Lecture: explaining concepts

Scene 1 Demonstration

• おはようございます．• ここではAP－Xのデモを見て頂きたいと思います．[give]• AP－Xは，他社の製品にはない特徴があります．[have]• 画面を見て下さい．[take]• このアイコンをクリックすると，アプリケーションが実行します．[make] そして，ウィンドウが現れます．[see]

• データファイルをこの枠(pane)に置くと，分析結果をすぐに得ることができます．[put, get]

• Good morning．My name is XXX.• I would like to give you a demonstration of AP-X here．• Our AP-X has a special feature the other companies’ products don’ t have.• Please take a look at the display.• Clicking this icon will make this application run. And then you can see a

window coming up.• If you put the data file in this pane, you can get results of analyzing it right

now.

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Scene2 Project meeting

• こんにちは，皆さん• このプロジェクトには２つの問題があります．[have]• 一つは，2つの重大な(serious)バグを月曜までに，直す必要があります．[get ~ pp]

• AさんとBさんにやってもらいたい．• もう一つは，リソース不足です．さらなる(additional)リソースをプロジェクトに投入しようと思います．[put]

• 2日後に2人のメンバが新たに加わります．[have]

• Hello, everyone.• Now this project has two problems.• First, we need to get two serious bugs fixed by next Monday. • I want Mr. A and Mr. B to do this task.• Second, our project does not have enough resource, and so I

made a decision to put some additional resource to the project.• We’ll have two new members in two days.

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Comments

• 数え上げ

– No. 1, No. 2, …

– First, second, …

– One is that S V. (Another is that S V.) The other is that S V.

• the : 相手との間に共通の認識のあるもの

– 一度話に出たもの

– 指しながら説明するもの

– 特定の「あれ」とピンとくるもの

• until / by A

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Now ABy： Aまでに（どこかで）

Until： Aまでの間のずうっとuntil

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Practice: Small group session

• Make three small groups of 6 or 7 members.

• Each member give an explanation of his/her favorite application to the others with the following framework:– Good afternoon, everyone. My name is XXX.– Today I would like to show you how to use XXX.– XXX is my favorite application because ……….– Let’s get started.

( Your explanation using some materials we prepared)

– That’s all. Do you have any questions?– Thank you for your attention.

• The previous presenter has to ask at least one question.

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Online dictionaries

英語のE-mailや論文を書くとき，辞書で確かめよう．Use online dictionaries when you write e-mail and essays.

• 英和・和英辞書

– Weblio : http://ejje.weblio.jp/

– 英辞郎on the web: http://www.alc.co.jp/

• Excite翻訳：http://www.excite.co.jp/world/

• 英英辞書

– Longman: http://www.ldoceonline.com/

– Oxford: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/

• 例文： googleで検索

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Explaining Concepts

• 技術的な会話ではコンセプト(概念)を伝えることが重要．To convey your concept to others is important in a technical context.

– 日常会話のつもりだとハタと困るYou will be in a trouble if you think it is the same as ordinary conversation.

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Concept

Explaining Concept

• Concept :

1. An abstract idea

2. An idea or invention to help sell or publicize a commodity

3. An experimental model to test the viability of innovative design features

4. An idea or mental image which corresponds to some distinct entity or class of entities, or to its essential features, or determines the application of a term (especially a predicate), and thus plays a part in the use of reason or language.

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Car（Entity）

Tire（Entity）

has

(Predicate: X has Y)

Concept map

• Concept map is a tool to describe your concept.

• Concept map is useful to:

– clarify your concepts

– integrate new (investigated/invented) concepts with your older concepts

– more clearly communicate ideas, thoughts and information with others 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Js_9-ek7o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXU9UKajpVM

What, for what How to create

An example of concept map

• Software engineering

– Key words:

• productivity, quality, method, tool,

• requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, projectmanagement,

• automation , verification, and

• model based engineering

– SEVOCAB: definition of software engineering

• the systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software

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Clarify your concept

• Choose one main concept you want to explain.Ex) Artificial intelligent, Virtual reality, Cloud computing, Internet of Things, Object-oriented programing, Natural language processing, Kansei information processing, you name it.

• List at least 10 key words related to the main concept.

– What you have

– What you investigate

• Write your concept map to explain the main concept in English.

• Learning partner session:

– Explain your concept using the concept map in English.

– The partner give advices to the presenter.

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Assignment

• Enhance your concept map, including at least:

– Definition ( the concept is )

– What it is for (how it is used/its benefits)

– Hot topics

– 20 concepts

• Bring 10 copies of your concept map to the next class,and prepare for presentation.

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For your information: glossary of IT words

• Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com/

• EVOCAB: Software and Systems Engineering Vocabulary: https://pascal.computer.org/sev_display/index.action

• Computer Glossary, Computer Terms: http://whatis.techtarget.com/

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