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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2018.38.4.575

Building Korean Science Textbook Corpus (K-STeC) for research of Scientific Language in Education  

Yun, Eunjeong (Kyungpook National University)
Kim, Jinho (Kangwon National University)
Nam, Kilim (Kyungpook National University)
Song, Hyunju (Keimyung University)
Ok, Cheolyoung (University of Ulsan)
Choi, Jun (Kyungpook National University)
Park, Yunebae (Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.38, no.4, 2018 , pp. 575-585 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the texts of science textbooks of the past 20 years were collected in order to systematically carry out researches on scientific languages and scientific terms that have not been noticed in science education. We have collected all the science textbooks from elementary school to high school in the 6th curriculum, the 7th curriculum, and the 2009 revised curriculum, and constructed a corpus comprising of 132 textbooks in total. Sequentially, a raw corpus, a morphological annotated corpus, and a semantic annotated corpus of science terms, were constructed. The final constructed science textbook corpus was named K-STeC (Korean Science Textbook Corpus). K-STeC is a semantic annotated corpus with semantic classification and classification of scientific terms, together with meta information of bibliographic information such as curriculum, subject, grade, and publisher, location information such as chapter, section, lesson, page, and sentence, and structure information such as main, inquiry activities, reference materials, and titles. Throughout the three-year study period, a new research method was created by integrating the know-how of the three fields of linguistic informatics, computer science and science education, and a large number of experts were put in to produce labor-intensive results. This paper introduces new research methodologies and outcomes by looking at the whole research process and methods, and discusses the possibility of future development of scientific language research and how to use the results.
Keywords
science textbook; corpus; science textbook corpus; scientific language; scientific terminology;
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