The Pro.Bio.Dic. (Prototype of a Bioethics Dictionary) project: Building a corpus of popular and specialized bioethics texts
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 (Vic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Rijeka, School of Medicine
2013-05-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Bioethics |
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| Online Access: | https://jahr-bioethics-journal.com/index.php/JAHR/article/view/93 |
| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 1847-6376 1848-7874 |