In this paper, we investigate the multiword verbs in the English sublanguage of MEDLINE abstracts. Based on the integration of the domain-specific named entity knowledge and syntactic as well as statistical information, this work mainly focuses on how to evaluate a proper multiword verb candidate. Our results present a sound balance between the lowand high-frequency multiword verb candidates in...

This paper investigates a special type of recurrent expressions, lexical bundles, defined as a sequence of three or more words that co-occur frequently in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). Considering the importance of this group of multi-word sequences in academic prose, this study explores the forms and syntactic structures of three- and four-word bundles in English abstracts writte...

Ask: Research and Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the methodology of social science research. ASK was fi rst published in 1995 by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Before 2008, ASK followed the tradition of other Polish language scientifi c journals by publishing short English language summaries of the articles. The...

The abstract of research papers is one of the first things that a reader will read to determine the value of the research. A well-written abstract will surely promote the text attached to it more effectively. By examining the rhetorical moves in the abstracts of Chinese Master’s English theses and published research articles in applied linguistics, this study compares the practices of student w...

AUTINDEX is a bilingual automatic indexing system for the two languages German and English. It is being developed within the EU-funded BINDEX project. The aim of the system is to automatically index large quantities of abstracts of scientific and technical papers from several areas of engineering. Automatic indexing takes place using a controlled vocabulary provided in monolingual and bilingual...

and indexing terms assigned by professional indexers (in MEDLINE these are Medical Subject Headings or MeSH). Essentially, for the researcher, electronic searches chiefly rely on two things: • the controlled vocabulary (in MEDLINE MeSH) terms assigned to the article by professional indexers; and • descriptors (text words) used by author/s in the title and abstract. Where the detail of the study...

This paper introduces the newly created VocabAnalyzer which is equipped with keyword, concordancing and n-gram functions. The VocabAnalyzer also allows the comparison of the inputted text against Jeng et al. (2002) vocabulary word list. Two case studies will be discussed in this paper. The first study compares two versions of the English Bible and the second study compares word list created by ...

Research articles are acknowledged to be the most important form of scientific discourse. Abstracts are, apart from the title, the first meeting of readers with research articles. Independently of their traditional purpose to summarize research articles, abstracts have become crucial for readers in the decision process of reading the text further, especially nowadays due to the vast amount of s...