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标题：E-patients in Oncology: a corpus-based characterization of medical terminology in an online cancer forum
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作者：Antonio Jesús Láinez Ramos-Bossinia ; Maribel Tercedor Sánchez
期刊名称：Ibérica
印刷版ISSN：1139-7241
出版年度：2020
卷号：39
页码：69-96
语种：German
出版社：Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
摘要：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) keywords contrastive, (2) co-text-guided, and (3) semantic analyses. More than half of the 1000 words analysed were medical terms according to the co-text-guided analysis carried out. Most of them (73%) were dictionary-defined medical terms, followed by co-text-defined terms (9%) and medical initialisms (8.5%). The semantic analysis showed a higher number of terms within the fields of Anatomy, Treatment, Hospital and Symptoms. Our findings suggest that medical terms are commonly used in cancer forums, especially to share e-patients’ concerns about treatment, symptoms and hospital environment. The method followed is efficient and could be applied in future studies. Altogether, this article contributes to characterizing medical terms used by e-patients in online cancer forums.