When writing a research paper, the author has to select information to include in the paper to support various arguments. The information has to be organized and synthesized into a coherent whole through relationships and information structures. There is hardly any research on the information structure of research papers, and how information structure supports rhetorical and argument structures. Thus, this study is focused on information organization in the Abstract and Introduction sections of sociology research papers, analyzing the information structure of research objective, question, hypothesis, and result statements. The study is limited to research papers reporting research that investigated cause–effect relations between two concepts. Two semantic frames were developed to specify the types of information associated with cause–effect and comparison relations, and used as coding schemes to annotate the text for different information types. Six link patterns between the two frames were identified—showing how comparisons are used to support the claim that the cause-effect relation is valid. This study demonstrated how semantic frames can be incorporated in discourse analysis to identify deep structures underlying the argument structure. The results carry implications for the knowledge representation of academic research in knowledge graphs, for semantic relation extraction, and teaching of academic writing.

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社会学研究论文中的信息结构：建模因果关系和研究目标和结果陈述中的比较关系1

在撰写研究论文时，作者必须选择要包含在论文中的信息以支持各种论点。必须通过关系和信息结构将信息组织和合成为一个连贯的整体。几乎没有关于研究论文的信息结构以及信息结构如何支持修辞和论证结构的研究。因此，本研究侧重于社会学研究论文摘要和引言部分的信息组织，分析研究目标、问题、假设和结果陈述的信息结构。该研究仅限于报告研究两个概念之间因果关系的研究论文。开发了两个语义框架来指定与因果关系和比较关系相关的信息类型，并用作编码方案来注释不同信息类型的文本。确定了两个框架之间的六个链接模式——显示了如何使用比较来支持因果关系有效的说法。这项研究展示了如何将语义框架纳入话语分析以识别论证结构背后的深层结构。结果对知识图谱中学术研究的知识表示、语义关系提取和学术写作教学具有重要意义。确定了两个框架之间的六个链接模式——显示了如何使用比较来支持因果关系有效的说法。这项研究展示了如何将语义框架纳入话语分析以识别论证结构背后的深层结构。结果对知识图谱中学术研究的知识表示、语义关系提取和学术写作教学具有重要意义。确定了两个框架之间的六个链接模式——显示了如何使用比较来支持因果关系有效的说法。这项研究展示了如何将语义框架纳入话语分析以识别论证结构背后的深层结构。结果对知识图谱中学术研究的知识表示、语义关系提取和学术写作教学具有重要意义。