A Co-Word Study of Artificial Intelligence

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ID11923609
AuthorsJean-Pierre Courtial ((J.-P. C.) Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, 62, Boulevard Saint Michel, 75006 Paris, France), Jean–Pierre Courtial (École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, corresponding author), John Law ((J. L.) Unit for Technology Analysis and Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Keele, Keele, Staffs. ST5 5BG, UK.), J Adam Law (0000-0003-3916-3918)
Year1989
Volume19
Issue2
Pages301-311
Publication date1989-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Studies of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/030631289019002005
OpenAlexW2116865130
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This Note briefly describes the method of `co-word analysis', and presents some results of its application to the scientific literature in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A sample of AI literature, published in 1984 and 1985, was drawn from the CNRS/INIST database in Paris. The co-word analysis of this sample suggests that AI is a field characterized by relative intellectual coherence in a specifiable `core'. In this, AI seems to differ from scientific studies of the acidification of the environment: a co-word analysis of the latter field reveals no evidence of the likely emergence of a unifying general theory. The policy implications of such co-word studies are discussed

Cognitive science · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Sample (material · Statistics · Word (group theory · Chemistry · Cognitive Science and Mapping · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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