个人第一和身份第一语言:文本挖掘探讨遗传学家如何讨论自闭症
J Kasmire1,2, Andrada Ciucă3, Ramona Moldovan4,5
1UK Data Service, Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Health informatics journal
|February 17, 2025
概括
在自闭症遗传学研究中,人第一语言 (PFL) 和身份第一语言 (IFL) 都被类似地使用. 自然语言处理 (NLP) 量化了它们的使用,有助于为科学出版物制定未来的语言准则.
科学领域:
- 遗传学 是一个遗传学.
- 语言学的语言学.
- 医疗信息学 医疗信息学
背景情况:
- 关于自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 适当术语的讨论通常涉及人第一语言 (PFL) 和身份第一语言 (IFL).
- 遗传学研究中的现有语言指南涵盖了残疾和种族,但在ASD的背景下缺乏针对PFL和IFL的具体建议.
- 在科学传播中,PFL与IFL的最佳使用仍然是激烈辩论的领域.
研究的目的:
- 应用自然语言处理 (NLP) 方法来分析PFL和IFL在遗传学研究摘要中的使用模式.
- 量化PFL和IFL在已发表的遗传学研究中的患病率,随时间的变化趋势和上下文使用情况.
- 探索PFL和IFL在同一研究文章中的同时出现.
主要方法:
- 使用自然语言处理 (NLP) 来分析欧洲人类遗传学学会 (ESHG) 会议 (2001-2021) 的大约5000个摘要,其中包含与自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 相关的关键词.
- NLP分析的重点是识别和量化个人第一语言 (PFL) 和身份第一语言 (IFL) 的实例.
- 语言使用模式随着时间的推移而被检查,与特定名词结合,并在摘要中相互结合.
主要成果:
- 在整个研究期间,观察到PFL (262例) 和IFL (264例) 的使用情况相似且一致.
- 大多数PFL和IFL病例是直接匹配的,例如"患有ASD的患者"或"ASD患者".
- 在经常与PFL和IFL同时出现的名词中发现了微妙的差异;50个摘要使用了PFL和IFL模式.
结论:
- 自然语言处理 (NLP) 提供了一种可靠的方法来量化PFL和IFL在科学研究中的使用,时间和背景.
- 这些发现表明NLP在分析科学文献中的语言趋势方面具有实用性.
- NLP可以有效地支持基于证据的语言风格准则的开发,并帮助评估这些准则在遗传学研究中的影响,特别是在自闭症谱系障碍 (ASD) 中.
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