Preliminary communication
The Pro.Bio.Dic. (Prototype of a Bioethics Dictionary) project: Building a corpus of popular and specialized bioethics texts
Alessandra Vicentini
Kim Grego
; University of Milan Department of Language Studies and Compared Literature, Milan, Italy
Daniele Russo
Abstract
This paper reports on an ongoing, long-term research project in the field of medical ethics and bioethics conducted by a multidisciplinary team combining medical, linguistic, IT and philosophical research interests: the Prototype of a Bioethics Dictionary (Pro.bio.dic).
Having already outlined (Vicentini et al. 2011) the reasons and needs to both redefine and update the lexicographic material available so as to provide a corpus-based collection of the English terms of contemporary bioethics to be published on a web platform, the Pro.bio.dic has now entered the key stage of corpus-building.
This stage requires establishing the criteria involved in creating a large, statistically-valid reference corpus of both specialized and popular bioethics texts, to be processed by means of text-mining and machine-learning techniques, and to serve as the basis from which the entries of the electronic online tool described as the Pro.bio.dic will be drawn by means of concordancing software.
Keywords
bioethics; English lexicography; corpora; corpus linguistics; online dictionary
Hrčak ID:
110355
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Publication date:
1.5.2013.
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