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Understanding academic writing style from the perspective of linguistic closeness of the speaker’s native language to English

Lu, Chao; Bu, Yi; Ding, Ying; Zhang, Chengzhi

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Title
Understanding academic writing style from the perspective of linguistic closeness of the speaker’s native language to English
Author(s)
  • Lu, Chao
  • Bu, Yi
  • Ding, Ying
  • Zhang, Chengzhi
Issue Date
2017
Keyword(s)
  • Native speaker
  • Academic writing styles
  • Text mining
  • Natural language processing
Abstract
This poster examines the relationship between researchers’ Linguistic Closeness of the native language to English (LCoE) and their writing styles. The “LCoE of articles” were defined according to the LCoE of their first and corresponding authors which are output by Ethnea, a system with an input of authors’ full name and an output of their possible native languages. The mean and standard deviation of the sentence length as well as average proportion of different parts of speech are utilized as two major indicators. Preliminary results showed three features of academic writing on researchers with higher LCoE: (1) longer sentences; (2) the combination between long and short sentences; and (3) more proportion of verbs.
Publisher
iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2017 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright 2017 Chao Lu, Yi Bu, Ying Ding, and Chengzhi Zhang

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