Abstract
Scientific writing is assumed to have become more informationally dense over time (Halliday, 1988; Biber and Gray, 2016). By means of fractal analysis, we study whether over time the degree of informativity has become more persistent with predictable patterns of gradual changes between high vs. low informational content, indicating a trend towards an optimal code for scientific communication.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.latechclfl-1.5
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Editors:
- Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
- Venue:
- LaTeCHCLfL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 38–44
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.latechclfl-1.5
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.latechclfl-1.5
- Cite (ACL):
- Yuri Bizzoni and Stefania Degaetano-ortlieb. 2023. Fractality of informativity in 300 years of English scientific writing. In Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 38–44, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Fractality of informativity in 300 years of English scientific writing (Bizzoni & Degaetano-ortlieb, LaTeCHCLfL 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2023.latechclfl-1.5.pdf