The representation of argumentation in scientific papers: A comparative analysis of two research areas.

Scientific papers are essential manifestations of evolving scientific knowledge, and arguments are an important avenue to communicate research results. This study aims to understand how the argumentation process is represented in scientific papers, which is important for knowledge representation, di...

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Publicado en:Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology Vol. 73; no. 6; pp. 863 - 879
Autores principales: Wang, Xiaoguang, Song, Ningyuan, Zhou, Huimin, Cheng, Hanghang
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2022
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          Wang, Xiaoguang
          Song, Ningyuan
          Zhou, Huimin
          Cheng, Hanghang
        affil: School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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          Psychological Theory
          Research, Medical
          Semantics
          Ontologies
          Human
          Librarianship
          Literature Review
          Comparative Studies
          Knowledge
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      ab: Scientific papers are essential manifestations of evolving scientific knowledge, and arguments are an important avenue to communicate research results. This study aims to understand how the argumentation process is represented in scientific papers, which is important for knowledge representation, discovery, and retrieval. First, based on fundamental argument theory and scientific discourse ontologies, a coding schema, including 17 categories was constructed. Thereafter, annotation experiments were conducted with 40 scientific articles randomly selected from two different research areas (library and information science and biomedical sciences). Statistical analysis and the sequential pattern mining method were then employed; the ratio of different argumentation units and evidence types were calculated, the argumentation semantics of figures and tables analyzed, and the argumentation structures extracted. A correlation analysis between argumentation and rhetorical structures was also performed to further reveal how argumentation was represented within scientific discourses. The results indicated a difference in the proportion of the argumentation units in the two types of scientific papers, as well as a similar linear construction with differences in the specific argument structures of each knowledge domain and a clear correlation between argumentation and rhetorical structure.
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