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LEXMED
Content research in ICT, healthcare and telemedicine
Project Leader :
José Manuel Abreu Garcia
Department:
• Modern Languages
and Culture
Project team:
José Manuel Abreu-Garcia,
Mary Daley,
Myriam Le Goff-Pronost,
Franz Moellmann.
Aims and objectives throughout the project
The GLAT (Groupe de linguistique appliquée des télécommunications)
publishes multilingual thematic lexicons (French, English, German, Spanish).
The most recent work « Lexique multilingue de la santé en Europe »,
published in 2009, is based on systematic targeted analysis of specialized
documents. We complete and develop the information collected with the
inclusion of cultural ethnic identity elements from the four systems examined.
The work will also include a phraseological vade-mecum with phrases
appropriate for a number of different medical situations. The future « Lexique
multilingue de la santé » is designed to become a reference in the domain ; it
will help European citizens to make better sense of the complexity of the
different systems.
Main achievements of the project
Different stages in methodology :
• Consultation of existing data bases in the target languages ;
• Identification of the corpus : approximately 1800 entries ;
• Extension to 2000 or 2200 entries ;
• Creation of an annex of the different « ethnic identity” concepts of the
other systems ;
• Creation of a short phraseology section with a number of “real-life”
medical situations.
Work in 2008 was devoted to checking and validating the corpus after any
necessary corrections and to the drawing up of an index for each language.
This involved listing each version of the entries in the corpus in the target
languages in order to classify them according to meaning and recurrence.
The lexicon begins with a concise synthesis of the four healthcare systems.
The corpus has been designed according to usual practice and does not
exceed two thirds of the work. Consequently, the number of entries retained
after updating several times can be definitively identified as 1992.
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