The specialized vocabulary of modern patent language: Semantic associations in patent lexis

Darren Hsin Hung Lin; Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh

The specialized vocabulary of modern patent language: Semantic associations in patent lexis

Darren Hsin Hung Lin, Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh

Department of Foreign Languages and Literature

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Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the language of patents, as a contribution to the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). While there work appears to fill a niche in the ESP field (and particularly in the English for Occupational Legal Purposes), the present study insists that statistical approach is necessary for compiling patent technical word list for ESP. Since research studies on word associations of patent lexis have been relatively scarce, this paper reports the technique to select appropriate words from high frequency words is required for modern patent language. The research content and statistical investigations building up a patent technical word list which helps learners of modern patent language expand the vocabulary size for a better understanding of patent writing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
Pages	417-424
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2010 Dec 1
Event	24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 24 - Sendai, Japan Duration: 2010 Nov 4 → 2010 Nov 7

Publication series

Name	PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

Other

Other	24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 24
Country	Japan
City	Sendai
Period	10-11-04 → 10-11-07

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Language and Linguistics
Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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Lin, DHH & Hsieh, SC 2010, The specialized vocabulary of modern patent language: Semantic associations in patent lexis. in PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pp. 417-424, 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 24, Sendai, Japan, 10-11-04.

The specialized vocabulary of modern patent language : Semantic associations in patent lexis. / Lin, Darren Hsin Hung; Hsieh, Shelley Ching-yu.

PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation. 2010. p. 417-424 (PACLIC 24 - Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation).

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