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"Competing Conceptions Of Globalization" Revisited: Relocating The Tension Between World-Systems Analysis And Globalization Analysis, Thomas Clayton
"Competing Conceptions Of Globalization" Revisited: Relocating The Tension Between World-Systems Analysis And Globalization Analysis, Thomas Clayton
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A Natural Language Approach To Information Management: Tracking Scientific Advances Through The Structure Of Words, Andrew R. Hippisley, Chara Karavasili
A Natural Language Approach To Information Management: Tracking Scientific Advances Through The Structure Of Words, Andrew R. Hippisley, Chara Karavasili
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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, …