Medical corpus: English corpus from the web
The Medical corpus is a domain-specific corpus made up of texts in English related to medical science, collected from the Internet. The corpus was prepared according to standards described in the document A Corpus Factory for Many Languages (Kilgarriff et al. at LREC 2010). The final size of the corpus totals 33 million words.
Part-of-speech tagset
The Medical web corpus was tagged with the TreeTagger using the English Penn Treebank POS tagset.
Tools to work with the English Medical web corpus
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this English web corpus to generate:
- word sketch – English collocations categorized by grammatical relations in the medical field
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- keywords– terminology extraction of one-word and multi-word units
- word lists – lists of English nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units from the medical field
- concordance – examples in the context of medicine environment
- text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus
Bibliography
Domain specific corpus
Avinesh, P. V. S., McCarthy, D., Glennon, D., & Pomikálek, J. (2012). Domain specific corpora from the web. In Proc. EURALEX.
Corpus factory method
Kilgarriff, A., Reddy, S., Pomikálek, J., & Avinesh, P. V. S. (2010, May). A corpus factory for many languages. In LREC.
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