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Doctoral Dissertations in Chinese Interpreting Studies

A Scientometric Survey Using Topic Modeling

 | Intercultural Studies Group Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
Published online: 1 April 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.13.1.07xuz
Abstract/Résumé
Tout en étant une discipline relativement nouvelle, la recherche sur l’interprétation en langue chinoise (RIC) a observé, depuis une vingtaine d’années, une croissance considérable du nombre de publications et de la diversité des thèmes étudiés. Le nombre de thèses de doctorat réalisées a également augmenté rapidement depuis la fin des années 1990. Puisque la RIC continue d'évoluer, il est important d'évaluer ses thèmes, tendances et institutions dominants de même que le développement professionnel des titulaires d'un doctorat dans ce sujet. Outre les techniques scientométriques traditionnelles, l'objectivité empirique de cette étude est renforcée par l'utilisation de la modélisation probabiliste par thèmes (PTM pour Probabilistic Topic Modeling), qui utilise l’allocation de Dirichlet latente (LDA pour Latent Dirichlet Allocation) pour analyser les thèmes abordés dans un corpus quasi exhaustif des thèses de la RIC. L'analyse révèle que les thèmes de la répartition des ressources cognitives, la déverbalisation et la modélisation du processus d'interprétation ont attiré beaucoup d’attention chez les doctorants. Des analyses supplémentaires ont été utilisées pour suivre la productivité de la recherche des institutions et les trajectoires professionnelles des titulaires de doctorat : une école s'est démarquée, représentant plus de la moitié du total des thèses produites et un doctorat en RIC s'est révélé être un atout précieux pour les nouveaux interprètes professionnels.
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