The Construction of a Customized Medical Corpus for Assisting Chinese Clinicians in English Research Article Writing

摘要：

　　A great number of clinicians in mainland China are under increasing pressure to publish their research results on international journals,and they urgently need support for writing research articles in English to compensate their limited English level.Though corpus has been proved to be a useful resource to assist second language learning and writing,research on corpus-assisted medical English writing is very sparse.This paper is concerned with the construction and application of a customized medical corpus for Chinese clinicians to aid their research article writing in English.With the support of a research project,this is the first customized medical corpus built under the joint collaboration between computer-linguistic researchers and clinicians in mainland China to directly serve the actual needs of clinicians.In particular,we report a case of how urologists apply the corpus – CCUT(Customized Corpus for Urology Team)in article writing under the situated assistance of linguistic researchers.The corpus has been found useful in assisting them in choosing the word of appropriate semantic relations,finding grammatical patterns different from general English in specialized medical context,learning how to use unfamiliar medical terms and revising ”Chinglish”(unidiomatic)expressions.

关键词： Customized medical corpus Chinese clinicians research article writing CCUT

作者: Xiaowen Wang Yong Gao Tianyong Hao

作者单位: School of English and Education,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou,China Reproductive Medicine Centre,The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou,China School of Informatics,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou,China

会议类型: 国内会议

会议名称: 第十五届全国计算语言学学术会议(CCL2016)暨第四届基于自然标注大数据的自然语言处理国际学术研讨会(NLP-NABD-2016)

会议地点: 烟台

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-12

在线出版日期: 2016-10-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）