Knowledge organization in the new era using DIY corpora as writing assistants

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

Pestana, Olívia (Author) FLUP; Sousa-Silva, Rui (Author) FLUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Knowledge Organization at the Interface: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International ISKO Conference, 2020 Aalborg, Denmark

Pages: 517-521

Sixteenth International ISKO Conference

Aalborg, Denmark , 2020

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > Information science

Other information

DOI: 10.5771/9783956507762-517

Abstract (EN): In academic contexts, students and researchers are expected to follow a set of strict conventions that are strange or unknown to them, especially when their dominant language is not English. This paper aims to show how tools such as the Corpógrafo (Maia and Sarmento 2005), a web-based environment for corpora research (DIY - Do it Yourself corpora), can be used to provide writing assistance, in this particular case on the domain of Knowledge Organization (KO). To conduct this study, we used a corpus of articles published in Knowledge Organization, the official bi-monthly journal of ISKO founded in 1973. The corpus is composed of articles published between 2016 and 2018 in the sections ‘Articles’ and ‘Reviews of Concepts’ in Knowledge Organization. The articles were processed in Corpógrafo, in order to enable results to be extracted. Given the results obtained, the relevance of using Corpógrafo as a writing assistance tool for the KO scientific field is discussed, in particular in the areas of: (a) terminology extraction; (b) retrieval of collocations and identification of specialized language phraseology.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific