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Record 1 2014-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research
CONT

... we instituted a heuristic that automatically classifies all abbreviations as incomprehensible to a lay reader. We do so due to our observation that each of the abbreviations occurring in our training set was classified as incomprehensible by our subject. We choose to implement a rule to treat them all as incomprehensible because even lay articles will occasionally make liberal use of such abbreviations after first defining them for the lay reader.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche scientifique
CONT

D'une part, contrairement à l'article scientifique, où les destinataires sont des spécialistes qui connaissent le domaine et sont intéressés par les méthodes d'investigation scientifique des chercheurs et chercheuses, l'article de vulgarisation s'adresse à un vaste public qui connaît plus ou moins le domaine et qui est davantage intéressé par les résultats de la recherche que par la méthodologie utilisée.

Spanish

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