E-patients in Oncology: a corpus-based characterization of medical terminology in an online cancer forum

This study aimed to characterize medical terms in an online cancer forum, with particular focus on specialization and semantic features. A three-step analysis was carried out on a 60-million-word corpus to detect and characterize the most typical medical terms used in a cancer forum by means of (1)...

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Main Authors: Antonio Jesús Láinez Ramos-Bossinia, Maribel Tercedor Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2020-07-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/39_03_IBERICA.pdf