Abstract
In scientific texts specialist words, or terms, express conceptual knowledge. We show that by looking at the use of a term and its family of derivatives over time we can have a tangible picture of how an underlying concept has evolved in scientific advances. This is because the structure of a word encases a core idea and how that idea has been extended in a particular direction. This paper is an outline of a research programme with some preliminary results from an analysis the term nucleus in a nine million word corpus of nuclear physics articles written over thirty-six years, from 1969 to the present day, representing a body of specialist knowledge of recognized growth over time.
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
Repository Citation
Hippisley, Andrew R. and Karavasili, Chara, "A Natural Language Approach to Information Management: Tracking Scientific Advances through the Structure of Words" (2004). Linguistics Faculty Publications. 50.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/lin_facpub/50
