Rainbow

“Rainbow” is an online tool built on the basis of science and engineering spoken corpus data to search vocabulary and examples. The corpus data were recorded from the seminars of seven different fields and they contain actual and real utterances. The purpose of Rainbow is to offer linguistic and educational support to non-Japanese international students to have a better understanding of presentations and discussion during the seminars, and to help them use the vocabulary and expressions. The entries of Rainbow mainly consist of independent words, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and pre-nouns.

You can search the following information by Japanese, English, Chinese, or Korean, when you enter a word in the search box.

• Language: Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean
• Field/Area of Study: Seven fields in Science and Engineering
  （School of Engineering: Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Urban Environment, Urban Engineering, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Chemical System Engineering, School of Information Science and Technology: Information and Communication Engineering）
• Example Sentences: Actual/Real Utterances used in the corpus.
• Level of Priority in learning the word: The level is determined by the specialists in each field.
  • [G] (General)… General word which you should know before college
  • [B] (Basic)… Basic word for research study in a graduate school
  • [S] (Specialized)… Special terminology in a particular field
• Useful Expressions: Useful expressions are phrases, expressions, collocations and compounds that might be useful for the conversation in science and engineering labs and/or academic discussions in general.