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Content analysis resources |
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On line ( 15/06/2004) |
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This site aims to support researchers interested in quantitative analyses of texts, transcripts, and images. The sections are: publications alert which contains summaries of recent noteworthy publications, books and monographs on content analysis, a mailing list, a list of links to web sites where one can find information (often including purchasing information) regarding content analysis software as well as other types of software that are often utilized by content analysts, a list of sites dedicated to content analysis and links to sites that provide information regarding people who are working with content analysis, the projects on which they are working, and the facilities in which they work. (AU) |
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content analysis; publications; sites web; content analysis resources |
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BUSHCH-LAUER, Ines |
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Abstracts in german medical journals - a linguistic analysis |
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal, September 1995, Vol. 31, nº 5, pp. 769 - 776 |
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On line (10/05/2005) |
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Studies on contrastive genre analysis have become a current issue in research on languages for specific purposes (LSP) and are intended to economize specialist communication. The present article compares formal schemata and linguistic devices of German abstracts and their English equivalents, written by German medical scholars to English native speaker (NS) abstracts. The source material is a corpus of 20 abstracts taken from German medical journals representing different degrees of specialism/professionalism. The method of linguistic analysis includes
1. (1) the overall length of articles/abstracts,
2. (2) the representation/arrangement of "moves",
3. (3) the linguistic means (complexity of sentences, finite verb forms, active and passive voice, tenses, linking words, and lexical hedging).
Results show no correlation between the length of articles and the length of abstracts. In contrast to NS author abstracts, the move "Background information" predominated in the structure of the studied German non-native speaker (GNNS) abstracts, whereas "Purpose of study" and "Conclusions" were not clearly stated. In linguistic terms, the German abstracts frequently contained lexical hedges, complex and enumerating sentence structures, passive voice and past tense as well as linkers of adversative, concessive and consecutive character. The GNNS English equivalent abstracts were author translations and contained structural and linguistic inadequacies which may hamper the general readability for the scientific community. Therefore abstracting should be systematically incorporated into language courses for the medical profession and for technical translators. (AU) |
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health; abstracting methods; text analysis; natural language processing |
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ENDRES-NIGGEMEYER, Brigitte; MAIER, Elizabeth; SIGEL, Alexander |
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How to Implement a Naturalistic Model of Abstracting: Four Core Working Steps of an Expert Abstractor. |
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Information Processing and Management, 1995, vol.31, n.5, pp.631-74 |
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Contribution to a special issue on summarizing text. 4 working steps taken from a comprehensive empirical model of expert abstracting are studied in order to prepare an explorative implementation of a simulation model. Aims to explain the knowledge processing activities during professional summarizing. Following the case based and holistic strategy of qualitative empirical research, develops the main the features of the simulation system by investigating in detail a small but central test case - 4 working steps where an expert abstractor discovers what the appear is about and drafts the topic sentence of the abstract. Following the KADS methodology of knowledge engineering, beings with the empirical model (a conceptual model in KADS terms) and aims at a computational model which is implementable without determining the concrete implementation tools (the design model according to KADS). The envisaged solution uses a blackboard system architecture with cooperating object oriented agents representing cognitive strategies and a dynamic text representation which borrows its conceptual relations in particular from RST (Rhetorical Structure Theory). A small simulation model of professional summarizing is feasible. (AU) |
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automatic abstracting; Knowledge-based-systems |
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HARTLEY, James; SYDES, Matthew; BLURTON, A. |
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Obtaining Information Accurately and Quickly: Are Structured Abstracts More Efficient. |
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Journal of Information Science, 1996, vol.22, n. 5, pp.349-56. |
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Reports results of 2 studies to determine if structured abstracts offer any advantages to users in terms of whether they are easier to search. In Study 1, using a specially prepared electronic database of abstracts in either their original format or the structured format, 52 users were asked to find the answers to 2 questions for each of 8 abstracts in traditional format followed by 2 questions for each of 8 abstracts set in the structured format. Time and error data were recorded automatically. In Study 2, using a printed database, 56 users were asked to find 5 abstracts that reported a particular kind of study and then find 5 more references that reported another kind of study. In Study 1 users performed significantly faster and made fewer errors with structured abstracts but there were some unexplainable practice effects. In Study 2, the users again performed significantly faster and made fewer errors with structured abstracts. However, there were asymmetrical transfer effects: users who responded first to the structured abstracts responded more quickly to the following traditional abstracts than did those users who responded first to the traditional abstracts. Nevertheless, the overall findings support the hypothesis that it is easier for users to search structured abstracts than it is to search traditional abstracts. (Professor J. Hartley may be contacted by electronic mail at PSA04@KEELE.AC.UK). (AU) |
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Abstracts-; Structured-formats |
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