The development of scientific article writing support system for Japanese researchers

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This research revealed idiosyncratic choice of English reporting verbs and sentence structures observed in scientific research articles written by Japanese researchers in the field of materials science. To make statistical comparison between Japanese-made articles and those made by English native speakers, we obtained 563 articles from seven international journals that cover the field of materials science. The total number of running words is 2,307,825 and the number of word types is 71,224. With paying special attention to the over-use tendency of reporting verbs such as argue, assert, say, mention, suggest, predict,conclude, etc, the sentence patterns in which those verbs are used are systematically classified. By giving them a close examination, we obtained major Japanese-peculiar tendency of using reporting verbs, which would lead to be a convincing guideline for scientists who try to publish their research results as precisely and accurately as possible.