title: How to read papers tags: 深度学习,机器学习,数据挖掘, grammar_mindmap: true renderNumberedHeading: true grammar_code: true
代码语言：javascript复制Describe: "如何读英文文献"
Date: 2018-12-1[toc!?direction=lr]
阅读英文文献
how to find
- Reference lists - use the reference list of a good article to find related articles.
- Reliable journals - page through favorite journals to look for interesting articles & keep up with what’s going on. Goto libraries.
- Popular press - less considered(MY INTERPRETATION)
- Colleagues, professors and friends
- Current Contents - a journal that consists of the table of contents of other journals.
- Citation Index - a compilation of all the articles referenced by recently published articles; “forward reference”.
- Compilations of Abstracts - like Current Contents; published less frequently, contain title & abstract & summary.
- Computer searches
- Web searches - web crawler
how to read papers
- ead an article at least two, three, or four times.
- For things you do not understand, they’re because:
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- Lack of adequate background.
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- Just too complicated.
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- Do not make sense.
Preparation:
- Looking up points made in references.
- Looking up in textbooks.
- Looking up words in dictionaries.
- Asking questions.
Whether to read:
- sufficient interest
- relevance to the work
- general importance
- quality & accuracy
- clearly written & accessibility
- “meaty”
- short
Suggestions to steps
Phase I: Screening the article
- Read the title once for keywords; read slowly to make sense.
- Judge the quality by author name.
- Look at date.
- Additional keywords.
Phase II: Getting the punch line
- Read the abstract once fast for keywords; read slowly to make sense.
- Read introduction. Easy & Informative in background.
- References sited by introduction.
Phase III: First reading
- Skim the abstract & intro to ensure adequate understanding of them.
- Skim the methods section. Only need to be studied if you intend to use the procedures.
- Read the results section.
- Read the discussion.
- Study the figures and tables.
