Technical Vocabulary in Computer Science Research Articles: A Corpus-based Study

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Technical Vocabulary in Computer Science Research Articles: A Corpus-based Study 컴퓨터 공학 분야 영어 학술 논문의 전문 어휘 분석: 코퍼스 기반 연구: 이제영, 이혜진
Lee, Je-Young and Lee, Hye Jin

28 February 2021. pp. 487-497

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Abstract

Computer science is a fast-moving and must-learn discipline, with a high lexical density of conceptually- demanding technical vocabulary. This study seeks to identify technical vocabulary used within the discipline of computer science through the corpus-based methodology. A specialized corpus of 135 research articles in computer science was built, comprised of 1,260,460 running words and for the analysis, AntWordProfiler was utilized. The corpus-driven analysis demonstrated that the GSL accounted for 71%. GSL and AWL’s combination achieved 83.1% of the computer science corpus, less than the 95% lexical threshold suggested for optimal comprehension. These results highlight the need for a mastery of technical lexis in computer science, which was found to be technical; a total of 545 field-oriented technical words were identified.

Keywords

computer science

technical vocabulary

specialized corpus

discipline-specific

corpus-driven analysis

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Publisher :The Modern Linguistic Society of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국현대언어학회
Journal Title :The Journal of Studies in Language
Journal Title(Ko) :언어연구
Volume : 36
No :4
Pages :487-497
DOI :https://doi.org/10.18627/jslg.36.4.202102.487

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[2] 이제영, 김정렬. 2013. 학술 전문 코퍼스를 활용한 영어교육 전문어휘 추출. 『Foreign Languages Education』 20.1, 99-122.

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[21] West, M. 1953. A General Service List of English Words. London: Longman.

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