Towards Extracting Formulaic Expressions from Japanese Scholarly Papers

Abstract

While scholarly papers in many disciplines are written in English, non-English papers have been published. Formulaic expressions used in research articles have been studied, but past work mainly focused on English formulaic expressions. In this study, we applied an existing formulaic expression extraction method that was originally proposed for English papers to introduction sections of Japanese papers on natural language processing. The results show that the extraction is to some extent successful. However, the paucity of dataset of scholarly papers hinders the construction of a comprehensive list of formulaic expressions and comparison among multiple disciplines.