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Searching Covid‐19 by linguistic register: Parallels and warrant for a new retrieval model
Author(s) -
Benoît G.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.246
Subject(s) - register (sociolinguistics) , parallels , computer science , covid-19 , warrant , vocabulary , parsing , natural language processing , linguistics , artificial intelligence , information retrieval , business , medicine , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , disease , finance , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Keeping informed given rapid trend in data and resources about covid‐19 is a new challenge. Different user groups (researchers/doctors, practitioners, public) vary in linguistic expression and vocabulary so a new retrieval framework might likewise vary to improve retrieval, expose unanticipated concepts, and establish a sustainable research stream. In this project a document collection about covid‐19 was created, parsed according to ISO12620's definition of linguistic register, and retrieval sets compared. Results suggest trends from other fields parallel register‐oriented criteria; project exposes unexpected concepts across groups, uses of visualization, and warrants ling‐register as a sustainable IR research stream.