美国专利书「独立项数」之搭配词初探.PDFVIP

美國專利書 「獨立項數」之搭配詞初探: 以LexisNexis 法律資料庫為例 Collocation Features of Independent Claim in U.S. Patent Documents: Information Retrieval from LexisNexis 林信宏 Darren Hsin-Hung Lin 謝菁玉 Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh 國立成功大學外國語文學系(所) Department of Foreign Languages and Literature National Cheng Kung University g364375@ms49.hinet.net Abstract The present study examines English patent documents extracted from LexisNexis. We compiled a reference corpus of independent claim texts and lay the focus specifically on their collocation features. The findings suggest the functional development of independent claim involves verb-noun collocation and semantic prosody. Verb-noun collocations happen to function as semantic trigger affected by semantic prosody. In particular, clausal nominalization ([13]) is observed in that of verbal clauses. Based on discourse thematic referentiality ([2]), independent claim entails how clausal-specific units constructed the patent setting. The result is significant because discourse thematic referentiality which addresses how lexical units build up modern patent language providing empirical evidence for the overall characterization of independent claim. Besides, rhetorical structure and lexical meaning of independent claim can be derived from components of clausal types as they occur collocationally, referentially and dependently. Mutual information i