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A scalable and adaptive method for finding semantically equivalent cue words of uncertainty
Journal of informetrics, v 12(1), pp 158-180
01 Feb 2018
Abstract
Scientific knowledge is constantly subject to a variety of changes due to new discoveries, alternative interpretations, and fresh perspectives. Understanding uncertainties associated with various stages of scientific inquiries is an integral part of scientists' domain expertise and it serves as the core of their meta-knowledge of science. Despite the growing interest in areas such as computational linguistics, systematically characterizing and tracking the epistemic status of scientific claims and their evolution in scientific disciplines remains a challenge. We present a unifying framework for the study of uncertainties explicitly and implicitly conveyed in scientific publications. The framework aims to accommodate a wide range of uncertainty types, from speculations to inconsistencies and controversies. We introduce a scalable and adaptive method to recognize semantically equivalent cues of uncertainty across different fields of research and accommodate individual analysts' unique perspectives. We demonstrate how the new method can be used to expand a small seed list of uncertainty cue words and how the validity of the expanded candidate cue words is verified. We visualize the mixture of the original and expanded uncertainty cue words to reveal the diversity of expressions of uncertainty. These cue words offer a novel resource for the study of uncertainty in scientific assertions. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- A scalable and adaptive method for finding semantically equivalent cue words of uncertainty
- Creators
- Chaomei Chen - Drexel UniversityMin Song - Yonsei Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Seoul, South KoreaGo Eun Heo - Yonsei University
- Publication Details
- Journal of informetrics, v 12(1), pp 158-180
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 23
- Grant note
- 1633286 / Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Program of the National Science Foundation NRF-2013M3A9C4078138 / Bio-Synergy Research Project of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning through the National Research Foundation
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000427479800012
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85039869492
- Other Identifier
- 991019168441204721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
- Information Science & Library Science