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A Study on the Statistical Characteristics for Table of Contents Text of the Books in Social Sciences Field

Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management / Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, (P)1013-0799; (E)2586-2073
2019, v.36 no.2, pp.255-273
https://doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2019.36.2.255

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Abstract

Recently, the table of contents (TOC) has been becoming increasingly accessible and utilized. The study conducted descriptive statistics and comparative analysis of the table of contents in terms of parts of speech and subject in text. For this purpose, this study chose the books of the social sciences field from acquisition lists of an academic library, obtained Dewey class numbers of target books from KERIS union catalog, and extracted TOC data from online bookstore. Morphological analysis was performed on each book titles and TOCs, and descriptive statistics and frequency analysis were carried out. As a result, nouns made up roughly half of the morphemes of titles or the TOCs. TOCs had about 50 times more nouns than titles. The percentage of unique nouns that appeared only in the table of contents is estimated to be 95.2% of the TOC’s total nouns. The table of contents also showed a differences in its lengths depending on the field of social science.

keywords
table of contents, descriptive statistics, length of table of contents, DDC(Dewey Decimal Classification), 목차, 통계적 특성, 목차 길이, DDC(Dewey Decimal Classification)

Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management