Biomedical English

Biomedical English: a corpus-based approach

by Verdaguer, Isabel

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In this article, I outline the fundamental aspects of how frame semantics is applied to lexical analysis in the Spanish FrameNet project (SFN). To this end, I describe the process of semantic annotation in SFN and the software tools we use, and how we have used our annotated sentences as a training corpus to implement automatic semantic-role labelling for Spanish. I then describe our initial forays into the study of Spanish grammatical constructions, in which we are integrating frame semantics …

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  • Full title :Biomedical English : a corpus-based approach / edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso, University of Barcelona ; Danica Salazar, University of Oxford.

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In this article, I outline the fundamental aspects of how frame semantics is applied to lexical analysis in the Spanish FrameNet project (SFN). To this end, I describe the process of semantic annotation in SFN and the software tools we use, and how we have used our annotated sentences as a training corpus to implement automatic semantic-role labelling for Spanish. I then describe our initial forays into the study of Spanish grammatical constructions, in which we are integrating frame semantics into syntactic analysis. Finally, I discuss SFN's procedure for annotating metaphors and show how fra.

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  • Publication Date:2013.

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • ISBN:9789027271921, 9027271925
  • oclc:ocn830837639
  • LC Classification:PE1128
  • Dewey Decimal:420.1/47

Table of Contents

Biomedical English; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; In memory of; Table of contents; Introduction; References; Collocations, lexical bundles and SciE-Lex; 1. Introduction; 2. Sinclair's notion of collocation; 3. Different approaches to collocation; 4. Corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approaches to phraseology; 5. Phraseological status of lexical bundles; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; SciE-Lex; 1. Introduction; 2. Purpose; 3. Corpus description; 4. SciE-Lex: First stage; 5. SciE-Lex: Second stage; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References.

Formal and functional variation of lexical bundles in biomedical English1. Introduction; 2. Morphosyntactic and lexical variation; 3. Functional variation; 3.1 Functional classification of lexical bundles; 3.2. Multifunctionality of lexical bundles; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; A corpus-based analysis of the collocational patterning of adjectives with abstract nouns in medical English; 1. Introduction; 2. The concepts of lexis, grammar and collocation in discourse; 3. Corpus and method; 3.1 Corpus-based methodological approach; 3.2 Method; 4. Results.

4.1 The pattern adjective + conclusion4.2 The pattern…

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