Abstract: The paper reports on preliminary results of an ongoing research aiming at development of an automatic procedure for recognition of discourse-compositional structure of scientific and technical texts, which is required in many NLP applications. The procedure exploits as discourse markers various domain-independent words and expressions that are specific for scientific and technical texts and organize scientific discourse. The paper discusses features of scientific discourse and common scientific lexicon comprising such words and expressions. Methodological issues of development of a computer dictionary for common scientific lexicon are concerned; basic principles of its organization are described as well. Main steps of the discourse-analyzing procedure based on the dictionary and surface syntactical analysis are pointed out.

• The work is supported by the grant № 06-01-00571 of Russian Fond of Fundamental Researches (RFFI).

International Journal "Information Theories & Applications" Vol.15 / 2008 190

Keywords: scientific and technical prose, common scientific words and expressions, discourse markers, scientific discourse operations, discourse-compositional analysis.

ACM Classification Keywords: I.2.7 Artificial Intelligence: Natural language processing – Text analysis

Link:

COMMON SCIENTIFIC LEXICON FOR AUTOMATIC DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TEXTS *

Elena Bolshakova

http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol15/ijita15-2-p15.pdf