O comportamento do termo informação na ciência da informação

Abstract

Information as a set of data that human beings give meaning to interpret facts, through a system of signs between transmitter and receiver, was essential for the development and survival of Science. As an element that constitutes the triad data, information, and knowledge, also studied in Information Science, the term information presents general characteristics when analyzed in an isolated context. Among the objectives, this research aims to: 1) identify and discuss the behavior of the term information in scientific research in the area of Information Science and; 2) perform the scientific mapping of compound terms formed by n-grams generated from the root term. The empirical research was carried out by constructing algorithms using the Python programming language that allowed extracting the frequency of terms from 2,448 documents. The term information, in its root form, has presented continuous and regular behavior throughout the analyzed period; however, the composition terms, such as "informação_tecnologia", "recuperação_informação" and "fonte_informação", together, reach 41.98% of the frequency of the term information, presenting greater specificity of concepts within the domain of the Information Science language. The real behavior of the term information is presented representatively and with greater specificity through the composition terms, formed from the root term. The interdisciplinary nature of Information Science contributed to the quantity and diversity of the composition terms extracted from the corpus.