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I am writing my master's thesis computer science and I want to open it with a sentence that reflects the whole work in a short way.

To that end, I have chosen to use the word "framework", but I am not sure if I have use it correctly.

The framework of this thesis is the natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records.

The sentence pretend to be an extension of a simpler and shorter sentence which I strongly believe that is correct:

The framework of this work is clinical text mining.

My questions are:

  • Is the longer sentence correct?
  • Which sentence is most suitable as the opening of a thesis?
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I don't think that framework is quite the right word. The Oxford Dictionaries says this

framework
NOUN

1 An essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object.
a conservatory in a delicate framework of iron

1.1 A basic structure underlying a system, concept, or text.
the theoretical framework of political sociology

But your usage concerns the content of the thesis.

I suggest that a better word would be scope, for which the Oxford Dictionaries has this

scope
NOUN

1 The extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant.
such questions go beyond the scope of this book

This would make your sentences

The scope of this thesis is the natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records.

The scope of this work is clinical text mining.

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    Scope doesn't feel quite right here either, to me. Perhaps context might work? Or better yet, just rephrasing completely: “This thesis deals with methods of natural language processing and machine learning as applied to clinical texts from electronic patient records”.
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    Commented May 27, 2019 at 14:08

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