INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE STRUCTURE
Subtitle: A METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF A LANGUAGE FOR REPRESENTING SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION.
Publisher: GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET, INST. FOER SPRAAKVETENSKAPLIG DATABEHANDLING
Published: 1980
Place of publication: <GOETEBORG>
Language: eng
Format: Paper
Number of pages: 111
Description: In modern information and documentation systems, the thesaurus has the important function of serving as a link between the author of a document and the information searcher. For this reason, the language structure of thesauri should receive more attention than has been the case so far. In this study, the intermediate function of the thesaurus has led to an investiga¬tion of the principles for structuring and representing informa¬tion in such a way that it corresponds to the cognitive structure assumed to exist in the information searcher. The model of inves¬tigation of cognitive representation is based on overt manifesta¬tions of concepts and conceptual relations as they emerge in the abstract language of titles of scientific documents. On the basis of this language structure, an algorithm has been developed for coding the relevant concepts by means of prepositions. The relevance of the concepts is judged with respect to a schema model containing the main components Problem, Method and Goal, assumed to represent the basic components of research itself. When applied to scientific titles, the assumption is verified. The algorithm generates the concepts corresponding to the compo¬nents, and assigns them to different data registers. An important result of the analysis is thus that the intermediate language structure of scientific titles displays a degree of abstractness suitable for automatic concept extraction, provided that an in¬formation- or cognition-oriented approach is employed in order for the data registers to be properly interpreted.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements  2; title: 1.	PROBLEMS AND AIMS  4; title: 2.	STRUCTURING PRINCIPLES  9; title: 2.1	Hierarchies  10; title: 2.2	Facets  12; title: 2.3	Structural relations  15; title: 2.4	Networks  17; title: 2.5	Schemas  19; title: 3.	MODELS OF REPRESENTATION  23; title: 3.1	Intermediate languages  23; title: 3.2	The thesaurus as a means of communication  27; title: 3.3	Degree of structuring in thesauri  29; title: 4.	A METHOD OF GENERATION BASED ON FUNCTIONAL RELATIONS  36; title: 4.1	Starting points for the construction of a model  36; title: 4.2	Presentation of the model  41; title: 4.3	Operationalization of the model  47; title: 5.	STRUCTURES IN A REPRESENTATIVE DATA BASE  59; title: 5.1	Organization of the data base  59; title: 5.2	Patterns in the titles  62; title: 5.3	Degree of differentiation as a function of type; title: of document  69; title: 6.	CONCEPTS IN FUNCTIONALLY RELATED REGISTERS  73; title: 6.1	Coding of functional relations  73; title: 6.2	Intermediate language functions  83; title: 6.3	Generated registers  92; title: 7.	CONCLUSIONS  101; title: 8.	SUMMARY  103; title: 9.	REFERENCES  107