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Sublanguage terms: Dictionaries, usage, and automatic classification

Year: 1995

Type: article

Abstract: The use of terms from natural and social scientific titles and abstracts is studied from the perspective of sublanguages and their specialized dictionaries. Different notions of sublanguage distinctiveness are explored. Objective methods for separating hard and soft sciences are suggested based on measures of sublanguage use, dictionary characteristics, and sublanguage distinctiveness. Abstracts were automatically classified with a high degree of accuracy by using a formula that considers the degree of uniqueness of terms in each sublanguage. This may prove useful for text filtering or information retrieval systems. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Source: Journal of the American Society for Information Science

DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199508)46:7<519::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-r

Authors: Robert M. Losee, Stephanie W. Haas

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: linguistics and terminology studies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2073201493

FWCI: 25.32

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Cited by: 22

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