Evolution of Scientific Terminology

SimpleScience: Lexical Simplification of Scientific Terminology

Lexical simplification of scientific terms represents a unique challenge due to the lack of a standard parallel corpora and fast rate at which vocabulary shift along with research. We introduce SimpleScience, a lexical simplification approach for scientific terminology. We use word embeddings to extract simplification rules from a parallel corpora containing scientific publications and Wikipedi...

Automatic Detection of Terminology Evolution

As archives contain documents that span over a long period of time, the language used to create these documents and the language used for querying the archive can differ. This difference is due to evolution in both terminology and semantics and will cause a significant number of relevant documents being omitted. A static solution is to use query expansion based on explicit knowledge banks such ...

Terminology Evolution in Component Libraries

The Ontological Status of Species: Scientific Progress and Philosophical Terminology

(1) Biological species are not classes, as traditionally defined, because they have no essence and because they have various properties (see 2 and 3) that are incompatible with the class concept. (2) Among non-class properties of species are their spatiotemporal localization, their boundedness, their internal cohesiveness, and their capacity to change (evolve). (3) Other non-class properties of...

Anatomy of Scientific Evolution

The quest for historically impactful science and technology provides invaluable insight into the innovation dynamics of human society, yet many studies are limited to qualitative and small-scale approaches. Here, we investigate scientific evolution through systematic analysis of a massive corpus of digitized English texts between 1800 and 2008. Our analysis reveals great predictability for long...