TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Bizzoni, Yuri
A1  - Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania
A1  - Fankhauser, Peter
A1  - Teich, Elke
T1  - Linguistic Variation and Change in 250 Years of English Scientific Writing: A Data-Driven Approach
JF  - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
N2  - We trace the evolution of Scientific English through the Late Modern period to modern time on the basis of a comprehensive corpus composed of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, the first and longest-running English scientific journal established in 1665. Specifically, we explore the linguistic imprints of specialization and diversification in the science domain which accumulate in the formation of “scientific language” and field-specific sublanguages/registers (chemistry, biology etc.). We pursue an exploratory, data-driven approach using state-of-the-art computational language models and combine them with selected information-theoretic measures (entropy, relative entropy) for comparing models along relevant dimensions of variation (time, register). Focusing on selected linguistic variables (lexis, grammar), we show how we deploy computational language models for capturing linguistic variation and change and discuss benefits and limitations.
KW  - Englisch
KW  - linguistic change
KW  - diachronic variation in language use
KW  - register variation
KW  - evolution of Scientific English
KW  - computational language models
KW  - Wissenschaftssprache
KW  - Sprachwandel
KW  - Sprachgebrauch
KW  - Automatische Sprachanalyse
Y1  - 2020
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-100889
SN  - 2624-8212
SS  - 2624-8212
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.00073
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.00073
VL  - 3
IS  - 73
SP  - 15
S1  - 15
PB  - Frontiers Media S.A.
ER  -