Information Density in English Scientific Writing: A Diachronic Perspective
Project B1
The project investigates the diachronic development of written scientific English, focusing on Information Density. On the basis of relevant data sets (e.g. Royal Society Corpus) computational language models are built for calculating information density/surprisal on different linguistic units (morphemes, words, syntactic phrases/constructions).
Selected phenomena of diachronic variation are investigated w.r.t. the role of information density along with other factors potentially involved in usage change. Both syntagmatic conditions and paradigmatic effects of change are studied.
https://blogs.royalsociety.org/publishing/linguistics-history-of-science/
Keywords: diachronic linguistics, scientific discourse, register variation, relative information density
Publications B1
Other Area-B Projects
- Cognitive Modelling of Information Density for Discourse Relations B2
- Information Theory and Ellipsis Redundancy B3
- Modelling and Measuring Information Density B4
- Neural Feature and Representation Learning for Information Density Based Translationese Classification B6
- Modelling Human Translation with a Noisy Channel B7