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.
The Pro.Bio.Dic. (Prototype of a Bioethics Dictionary) project: Building a corpus of popular and specialized bioethics texts.
VICENTINI, ALESSANDRA;RUSSO, DANIEL
2013-01-01
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.
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