Why Words and Co-Words Cannot Map the Development of the Sciences.

Leydesdorff, Loet

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ERIC Number: EJ564212

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Publication Date: 1997

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Why Words and Co-Words Cannot Map the Development of the Sciences.

Leydesdorff, Loet

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v48 n5 p418-27 May 1997

Reports on a study that analyzed and compared a restricted set of full-text articles from a sub-specialty of biochemistry in terms of co-occurrences and co-absences of words. The consequences for the lexicographical approach to generating artificial intelligence from scientific texts are discussed. (JAK)

Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Biochemistry, Concept Mapping, Journal Articles, Lexicography, Matrices, Models, Scientific and Technical Information, Semantics, Sentences, Statistical Distributions, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Text Structure, Word Frequency

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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