The construction of online HealthTermFinder and its English-Chinese bilingualization

Jun Ding; Pam Peters; Adam Smith

The construction of online HealthTermFinder and its English-Chinese bilingualization

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Abstract

Health TermFinder (HTF) is an online platform and information tool designed to support medical and health terminologies. Pilot termbanks in selected fields such as breast cancer are currently under construction at Macquarie University in Sydney. Cooperation with Fudan University in Shanghai is underway to develop a bilingualized English–Chinese version of HTF. This paper provides a theoretical overview of HTF as a customized electronic information tool, with reflections on its structure, data organization, user interface and overall principles of construction. Following a discussion of the macrostructure of HTF, i.e., whether it is essentially a lexicographic or terminological work, two sections of the paper are devoted to discussions of its corpus-based selection of headwords and design of the microstructure, with emphasis on the user-oriented philosophy underlying both and based on best principles/practice in lexicography and multimodal language learning. The status quo of the cooperative bilingualization project is given close examination in Section 5, and in Section 6 the possible use of adaptive hypermedia in its future development is proposed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronic lexicography in the 21st century
Subtitle of host publication	linking lexical data in the digital age. Proceedings of the eLex 2015 conference
Place of Publication	Ljubljana; Brighton
Publisher	Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies / Lexical Computing Ltd
Pages	123-135
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9789619359433
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	eLex 2015 conference - Herstmonceux Castle, UK, Herstmonceux Castle Duration: 11 Aug 2015 → 13 Aug 2015

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Conference	eLex 2015 conference
City	Herstmonceux Castle
Period	11/08/15 → 13/08/15

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Keywords

Online dictionary
Health TermFinder
user-oriented
bilingualized
adaptive hypermedia

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Ding, J., Peters, P., & Smith, A. (2015). The construction of online HealthTermFinder and its English-Chinese bilingualization. In Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: linking lexical data in the digital age. Proceedings of the eLex 2015 conference (pp. 123-135). Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies / Lexical Computing Ltd. https://elex.link/elex2015/conference-proceedings/paper-08

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Ding, J, Peters, P & Smith, A 2015, The construction of online HealthTermFinder and its English-Chinese bilingualization. in Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: linking lexical data in the digital age. Proceedings of the eLex 2015 conference. Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies / Lexical Computing Ltd, Ljubljana; Brighton, pp. 123-135, eLex 2015 conference, Herstmonceux Castle, 11/08/15. <https://elex.link/elex2015/conference-proceedings/paper-08>

The construction of online HealthTermFinder and its English-Chinese bilingualization. / Ding, Jun; Peters, Pam ; Smith, Adam.
Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: linking lexical data in the digital age. Proceedings of the eLex 2015 conference. Ljubljana; Brighton: Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies / Lexical Computing Ltd, 2015. p. 123-135.

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