Jargonness is a piecewise mathematical function mapping the frequencies of a word's appearance in scientific and contemporary English corpora to a parameter quantifying the word's association with scientific jargon - the "jargonness" of that word.[1] It is expressed mathematically as[2]:
In the above equation, stands for the frequency of a word's appearance in a general English-language corpus and stands for its frequency in a scientific corpus.
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