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Medical Eponyms, Achilles’ Heel of Language Consulting Centre’s enquirers
Mžourková, Hana
Eponyms are a traditional part of medical terminology. Their specificity consists in the proprial motivation (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome). Especially in several past decades there is undoubtedly an increase of medical terms (and therefore eponyms) in everyday communication. Questions for the correct form of eponyms naturally emerged in lingustically structured database of enquiries, too. The paper focuses on orthographic and morphological aspect that enquirers of Language Consulting Centre have difficulty with and practical use of the resulting language data.
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Computer Processing of Language Data: New Challenges in Language Cultivation
Pravdová, Markéta
This article deals with computer processing of language data at the Prague language consulting centre. In the period from 1998 to 2010 there were 71,500 queries sent by electronic mail to the language consulting centre of the Institute of the Czech Language. These queries have become the basis for the Internet Language Reference Book. Between 2009 and 2010, the reference book website registered 10 million visits from 500 thousand unique visitors. This large volume of requests for information regarding the Czech language – asked via e-mail, web interface or telephone – demonstrates a lively public interest in the Czech language, and it has become an important source of data regarding the current usage of the language. What are the next steps in and aims of language consulting? What is the status of internet sources vis-a-vis linguistic codification of Czech? Can these tools contribute to bridging the gap between the norm and codification?
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