TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel graphical representation of sentence complexity
T2 - The description and its application
AU - Magnone, Edoardo
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - This paper concerns the development and use of a new interdisciplinary graphical approach in the statistical analysis of complexity of sentence structure for scientometric purposes. A scheme in three-dimensional space (barycentric plot) is used for a graphical representation of scientific research text correlations between the number of characters, the number of words, and the number of complex syllable words for sentences of several monolingual corpuses. The barycentric plots do not only drastically increase the visual information content in a given corpus, but at equal conditions of text-based corpus, they also contribute to the comparative analysis of different kinds of subject, section, author-style, journal, field, etc. As illustrated in present study, the proposed graphical approach can have broad implications and practical applications not only in scientometric field, but also in statistical linguistics, stylistic text research, and informetric research. This article explores the interdisciplinary approach research and applications of different areas of knowledge.
AB - This paper concerns the development and use of a new interdisciplinary graphical approach in the statistical analysis of complexity of sentence structure for scientometric purposes. A scheme in three-dimensional space (barycentric plot) is used for a graphical representation of scientific research text correlations between the number of characters, the number of words, and the number of complex syllable words for sentences of several monolingual corpuses. The barycentric plots do not only drastically increase the visual information content in a given corpus, but at equal conditions of text-based corpus, they also contribute to the comparative analysis of different kinds of subject, section, author-style, journal, field, etc. As illustrated in present study, the proposed graphical approach can have broad implications and practical applications not only in scientometric field, but also in statistical linguistics, stylistic text research, and informetric research. This article explores the interdisciplinary approach research and applications of different areas of knowledge.
KW - Fog Index
KW - Sentence complexity
KW - Statistical text analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892896457&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11192-013-1074-9
DO - 10.1007/s11192-013-1074-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84892896457
SN - 0138-9130
VL - 98
SP - 1301
EP - 1329
JO - Scientometrics
JF - Scientometrics
IS - 2
ER -