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Assessment on Quality Improvement of the Abstracts of the Original Research Articles in the Korean Journal of preventive Medicine (예방의학회지 게재 원저논문의 영문초록 질 개선의 평가)

  • Park, Jun-Ho;Lee, Hwa-Soon;Park, Jong-Ku;Cha, Bong-Suk;Kim, Chun-Bae
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2003
  • Objectives : To compare the quality improvement of the abstracts of original articles, according to the revised manuscript format, of the Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine (Korean J Pre Med) was adopted in 1999. Methods : A total 63 abstracts for 1997, and 49 for 2001, were selected as the original articles from the Kor J Pre Med. This study was carried out by the separate-sample pretest-posttest design. The quality of the abstracts was measured by a checklist of Narine' evaluation criteria, and the other information related to the articles were also surveyed by e-mail and fax or telephone using a self-made Questionnaire, From the response rate, a total of 62 abstracts for 1997 and 49 for 2901 were finally analyzed. Results : The mean number of words in an abstract decreased from 285 in 1997, to 250 by 2001. The mean number of key words per abstract decreased from 3.9 in 1997, to 3.6 by 2001. The mean number of inappropriate usage of key words per abstract, by the MeSH standard, decreased from 1.9 in 1997, to 0.4 by 2001 Also, the overall mean score of abstract quality increased from 0.54 in 1997 to 0.61 by 2001. The range of scores for the abstract quality was better in 2001 ($0.40{\sim}0.77$) than in 1997 ($0.20{\sim}0.81$). From the multiple regression analyses of the 1997 and 2001 databases, the intervention of the manuscript format's revision, and the number of English words to the quality score of the .abstract, were the only statistically significant factors, Conclusions : In conclusion, the quality of abstracts in the Kor J Pre Med has improved since the revised manuscript format was adopted in 1999. The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine will continuously recommend proposals for more informative abstracts in their journal, and will evaluate the abstracts' content with quality criteria. Future studies should address these issues, and compare the quality of abstracts between different international and domestic journals.

A Study on Examining Nursing Journal Abstract

  • Lee, Eunpyo;Shin, Myeong-Hee
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.177-191
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    • 2011
  • This paper examines nursing professionals' English abstract to learn their preferences towards tense and voice choices. A total of 24 abstracts, completed reviews to be published by the editorial board members of the Korea Industrial Nursing Association, were analyzed for the study. Each sentence in the four parts of the abstract (Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusion) was examined and classified into active/passive voices, and present/past/present perfect tenses. Verbs were then further identified to see which ones were commonly preferred to state the objectives of the study, methods, and to draw conclusions. Hedging expressions in Conclusion were also examined. The results of the present study revealed that Purpose was mostly (79%) stated in the past tense with slight use (17%) of the present tense in the form of 58% active and 42% passive voice whereas Methods were dominantly (96%) illustrated in the past tense with preference of mixed active and passive voice. The Results were also preferably (92%) stated in past tense and Conclusion in both present and past tense. Verbs used by these nursing professionals seemed diverse; however, hedging appeared to be narrowly limited to a few expressions including suggest and should. More diverse English hedging expressions need to be taught at least college level writing so that the EFL learners and writers can have a better understanding of presenting statements in an appropriate level of caution, confidence, or uncertainty.

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A Study on the Knowledge-Based System for Automaic Abstracting (자동 초록을 위한 지식 기반 시스템 설계에 관한 연구)

  • 최인숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.93-117
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    • 1989
  • The objective of this study is to design an automatic abstracting system through the analysis of natural language texts. For this purpose a knowledge-based system operating on the basis of domain knowledge was developed. The procedure of generating an abstract consists of three steps: (1) A knowledge-base containing domain knowledge necessary to understand a text is constructed using frame and semantic network structures,and preliminary abstracts are prepared for various cases. (2) Input text is analysed on the basis of domain knowledge in order to extract information filling slots of the abstract with. (3) A Preliminary abstract corresponding to the input text is called and filled with the information, completing the abstract.

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A Study on the Visual System of Object - Oriented Based on Abstract Information (객체지향을 기반으로한 추상화 정보의 시각화 시스템에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Haeng-Kon;Han, Eun-Ju;Chung, Youn-Ki
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.4 no.10
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    • pp.2434-2444
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    • 1997
  • As software industry progresses, the necessity of visual information have increased more than text-oriented information. So, automatic tools are required to satisfy a user's desire for visual design representation of various source information in the real-world. In this paper, we discuss the methodology and tools for parsing abstract information through semantic analysis and extracting visual information through visual mapping. Namely, as to abstract informations are represented as relational structure and then mapped into visual structure using regular rule, user can obtain visual information. We suggest VOLS(Visual Object Layout System) to transform a abstract information to visual information. It can improve user understandability and assist a maintenance for existing source code.

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Factors affecting the number of citations in papers published in the Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene (한국치위생학회지 게재논문의 피인용수에 영향을 미친 요인)

  • Jeon, Se-Jeong
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.639-644
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors that affected the number of citations for articles published in the Journal of Korean Society of Dental Hygiene based on previous studies. Methods: Information on papers including the number of citations was collected using a web crawling technique. The effect of the number of author keywords, the number of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) keywords, MeSH match rate, abstract word count and keyword-abstract ratio on the number of citations was analyzed by multiple regression analysis. Results: The use of the MeSH keyword did not have a significant effect on the number of citations. Among the other factors, only the keyword-abstract ratio was statistically significant. Conclusions: Select a topic of constant interest in the field, write the title in detail using colons or asterisks if necessary, and do not repeat the words used in the title in keywords. Select specific keywords deeply related to the topic. In particular, choice words or phrases that are frequently used in the abstract. If the MeSH keyword selection contradicts the previous strategies, boldly give up the MeSH keyword.

Korean Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) Guidelines for Graph-structured Representations of Sentence Meaning (문장 의미의 그래프 구조 표상을 위한 한국어 Abstract Meaning Representation 가이드라인)

  • Choe, Hyonsu;Han, Jiyoon;Park, Hyejin;Oh, Taehwan;Park, Seokwon;Kim, Hansaem
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2019.10a
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    • pp.252-257
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    • 2019
  • 이 논문은 한국어 Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR; 추상 의미 표상) 가이드라인 1.0*을 소개한다. AMR은 통합적인 의미 표상 체계로, 의미 분석(semantic parsing)의 주요 Task 중 하나로 자리매김하고 있다. 한국어 AMR 가이드라인은 현행 AMR 1.2.6을 심도 있게 분석하고 이를 한국어 상황에 맞게 로컬라이징한 것이다. 해당 가이드라인은 추후 한국어 AMR 말뭉치 구축(sembanking)에 대비하여 일관된 주석 세부 지침을 제공하기 위해 작성되었다.

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A Study on a Landscape Color Analysis according to Regional Environment - Centering on Damyang County, Jeollnamdo - (지역 환경에 따른 경관 색채분석에 관한 연구 - 전라남도 담양군을 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Seong-Kyung;Moon, Jung-Min
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.146-154
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    • 2012
  • As Damyang has preserved both beautiful natural environment and tradition very well, it needs colors which can coexist with Damyang while preserving it as it is rather than colorful and refined colors. However, the present Damyang deteriorates the quality of beautiful natural scenes by chaotic uses of colors. Therefore, colors which can represent symbolism based on the present colors of Damyang should be used so that everyone can be pleased with them. Finally, the basic colors decided were classified into main, supplement and highlight colors in consideration of characteristics of each scene and they were effectively arranged based on the colors decided. If such colors and color schemes are properly applied according to characteristics of scenes, ecological, historical, cultural and traditional scenes of Damyang can be preserved consistently. Academic literature uses the abstract to succinctly communicate complex research. An abstract may act as a stand-alone entity instead of a full paper. As such, an abstract is used by many organizations as the basis for selecting research that is proposed for presentation in the form of a poster, platform/oral presentation or workshop presentation at an academic conference. Most literature database search engines index only abstracts rather than providing the entire text of the paper. Full texts of scientific papers must often be purchased because of copyright and/or publisher fees and therefore the abstract is a significant selling point for the reprint or electronic version of the full-text. Abstracts are protected under copyright law just as any other form of written speech is protected. However, publishers of scientific articles invariably make abstracts publicly available, even when the article itself is protected by a toll barrier. For example, articles in the biomedical literature are available publicly from medline which is accessible through design. It is a common misconception that the abstracts in medline provide sufficient information for medical practitioners, students, scholars and patients. The abstract can convey the main results and conclusions of a scientific article but the full text article must be consulted for details of the methodology.

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Quality Assessment of the Abstracts of the Original Articles (1997) in the Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine (예방의학회지(1997년)에 게재된 원저논문 영문초록의 질 평가)

  • Park, Jong-Ku;Hannibal, Desmond;Kim, Chun-Bae
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.72-79
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    • 1999
  • Objectives. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of abstracts of original articles. Methods. This subjects selected total 63 abstracts of the original articles of the Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine in 1997. The quality of abstracts was measured against a checklist of evaluation criteria, which were divided into eight categories and the numbers of inappropriate words (including grammar) according to criterionbased survey. A score for each abstract was obtained by dividing the number of criteria presented by the number applicable. The overall mean score was also determined. Results. The overall mean score of abstract quality was 0.55 out of 1. Of the abstracts subject selection 83% didn't include specific technical descriptors. Of those that gave conclusions 92% didn't address study limitations and 78% made no recommendations for future study. The overall mean number of inappropriate usage of words (including grammar) per abstract was 14.1. The overall mean number of English words was 283. In the multiple regression analyses, the research career of the first author and the number of English words to the number of inappropriate usage of words were statistically significant. Also, in the secondary regression model, the number of English words to the quality score of abstract was only statistically significant. Conclusions. Most of the abstracts provided some information pertaining to each evaluation criterion. However, they did not provide sufficient details to enhance the reader's understanding of the article. On the basis of the study the abstracts need improvement in its description of the reported subject selection, statements of limitations and recommendations, etc. The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine will recommend a proposal for more informative abstracts in Korean J Prey Med and will take into consideration the introduction of foreign review of abstracts. Future studies should address these issues and compare the quality of abstracts between different journals and their time of publication.

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