Formal methods of text research: technicaldocuments analysis application

We consider text analysis as a method when a researcher does not measure or observe anything, but analyses results of subject's activity (diary, products of professional activity or studying). Among all the variety of methods related to text analysis we should single out content analysis as possessing several important advantages that let solve diverse research problems. In this article content analysis is used as a method of documental texts research, it transfers text information into quantitative indices, which can be analysed statistically. Content analysis allows revealing implicit content of communication and social processes. The article describes the results of content analysis of foreign and analogical Russian technical documentation on human factor engineering. The goal of the study was to compare Russian and western approach to human factor engineering at nuclear power plants (NPP). Text analysis was conducted using Content Analyzer v 0.52 software. As a result, the analysis exposed principal difference in the approaches to human factor engineering: orientation on tasks' fulfilling in western documents and orientation on personal responsibility in Russian documents. These results, along with the analysis of style of NPP management and functioning in Russia, show that western tradition of human factor engineering can be applied restrictedly in our country.

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