Development of a WorldWideWeb System to Assist Japanese Medical Researchers in Writing English Papers with the help of a Life/Medical Science Related Corpus

开发万维网系统，借助生命/医学科学相关语料库协助日本医学研究人员撰写英文论文

• 批准号: 16590430
• 负责人: OHTAKE Hiroshi
• 金额: $ 2.24万
• 依托单位: Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2004 至 2006
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-16590430/
• 关键词: English Corpus; English Research Papers; English Concordance; English Collocation; Medical Science; Internet; Life Science

The aim of this project was to develop a novel World Wide Web system that can assist Japanese medical researchers in writing English research papers by taking advantage of a life/medical science related corpus. To accomplish this, we first compiled an English corpus consisting of scientific papers relating mainly to life/medical sciences and principally written by native speakers of English. The corpus now contains more than 60,000,000 running words.Statistical analyses of the corpus have enabled us to obtain information on which particular words or phrases occur frequently and which words commonly collocate with a given word. Many Japanese medical researchers have long suffered from the absence of this kind of useful information and have therefore tended to produce English that deviates from the linguistic conventions observed by native speakers. The system developed in our project provides users with useful information on concordances and collocations for almost each and every word with just a click of a mouse button, as long as the word retrieved is contained in the corpus.Most Japanese medical researchers lack native-like intuition in using English, which has resulted in awkward expressions such as 'high possibility' or 'may probably.' However, now that the system is widely available to the public on the Internet, they can refer to it whenever they need to confirm the naturalness of a particular combination of English words instead of simply relying on their own non-native-like intuitions. This should thereby help to lessen the burden on Japanese medical researchers when writing research papers in English.

本项目的目的是开发一个新的万维网系统，可以帮助日本医学研究人员利用生命/医学科学相关的语料库撰写英语研究论文。为了实现这一目标，我们首先编制了一个英语语料库，其中包括主要与生命/医学科学相关的科学论文，主要由英语母语者撰写。语料库目前包含6000多万个连续词，通过对语料库的统计分析，我们可以了解哪些特定的词或短语经常出现，哪些词通常与给定的词搭配。许多日本医学研究人员长期以来一直苦于缺乏这种有用的信息，因此倾向于使用偏离母语人士所遵守的语言惯例的英语。本项目开发的系统，只要检索到的词包含在语料库中，用户只需点击鼠标按钮，就可以获得几乎每个词的一致性和搭配的有用信息。日本医学研究者在使用英语时，大多缺乏母语者的直觉，这导致了“high possibility”或“may probably”等令人尴尬的表达。“然而，现在该系统在互联网上广泛提供给公众，他们可以在需要确认特定英语单词组合的自然性时参考它，而不是简单地依赖于自己的非母语直觉。因此，这将有助于减轻日本医学研究人员在用英语撰写研究论文时的负担。

项目成果

Collocational Analysis of Life Science English (3)

生命科学英语搭配分析（三）

• 发表时间: 2006
• 期刊: Studia Humana et Naturalia 40
• 作者: Takahashi K;Totsune K;Murakami O.;Hiroshi OHTAKE
• 通讯作者: Hiroshi OHTAKE

ライフサイエンス英語類語使い分け辞典

生命科学英语同义词词典

• 发表时间: 2006
• 作者: 金子周司;鵜川義弘;他5名
• 通讯作者: 他5名

Collocational Deviation Involving possibility/probability in English Abstracts by Japanese Medical Researchers

日本医学研究者英文摘要中涉及可能性/概率的搭配偏差

• 发表时间: 2004
• 期刊: Medical English (JASMEE) 5・1
• 作者: Tateishi M;Ohashi K;Kobayashi K;Hashimoto T;Yamaguchi J;Fujioka H;Izawa K;Masada M;Hiroshi OHTAKE
• 通讯作者: Hiroshi OHTAKE

Collocational Analysis of Life Science English (2)

生命科学英语搭配分析（二）

• 发表时间: 2005
• 期刊: Studia Humana et Naturalia 39
• 作者: 大橋京一;立石正登;Takeshi KAWAMOTO
• 通讯作者: Takeshi KAWAMOTO

Collocational Analysis of Life Science English (1)

生命科学英语搭配分析（一）

• 发表时间: 2004
• 期刊: Studia Humana et Naturalia 38
• 作者: 大橋京一;立石正登;Takeshi KAWAMOTO
• 通讯作者: Takeshi KAWAMOTO