Comparing Academic Papers of Students and Experts in terms of Linguistic Features with Natural Language Processing

Airu Zhao, Haozhou Sun, Wei Chen, Hercy N.H. Cheng

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Abstract

In graduate education, the quality of academic papers can reflect individual scientific research achievements. This study compared the differences in linguistic features between the papers of experts and graduate students with natural language processing. More specifically, for revealing the problems existing in the writing of graduate students, this study analyzed academic papers in a journal as experts and those of graduate students by using Chinese word segmentation. The study found that the graduate students and experts have differences in the use of various parts of speech (i.e., nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and conjunctions) and connective words (i.e., organization, comparison, summarization, etc.). The results may be helpful for further designing scaffolding to improve the writing quality of graduate students' papers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSET 2020 - 2020 the 4th International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages63-67
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450388771
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 15 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology, ICSET 2020 - Virtual, Online, Taiwan
Duration: Aug 15 2020Aug 17 2020

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology, ICSET 2020
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/15/208/17/20

Keywords

  • Academic writing
  • Chinese word segmentation
  • graduate education
  • linguistic features

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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