Building up a combinatory dictionary of biomedical English, SciE-Lex
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The aim of this article is to present the development of SciE-Lex, a lexical database of non-specialised terms used in biomedical English. SciE-Lex has been designed with the purpose of helping Spanish scientists to write scientific articles in English. As a lexicographic project, it is fully integrated into the lexico-grammatical approach that underlines the close relationship between the lexicon and grammar. There have been three stages in its development: In the first stage, SciE-Lex provides, in addition to the Spanish equivalents of each entry, morphosyntactic and combinatorial information, illustrated with examples and usage notes. In a second phase, we added prefabricated expressions and explicit information about their variability, composition, discourse function and distribution in the biomedical research article. Finally, in a third stage we aim to introduce frame semantics in order to establish syntactic and semantic relations between the terms that belong to the same frame.
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