@article{Kokkinakis-Dimitrios2006-34032,
title = {Comparing Lay and Professional Language in Cardiovascular Disorders Corpora.},
abstract = {This paper reports on a corpus-based, contrastive study of Swedish medical language. It is focused on the vocabulary used in two types of medical textual material: professional portals and web-based consumer sites within the domain of cardiovascular disorders. Linguistic, statistical and quantitatively based readability studies are considered in order to find the typical language-dependent and, possibly, language independent characteristics of the material examined and suggest concrete measures that might bridge the gap in medical vocabulary as used by laypersons/consumers and professionals.
},
journal = {WSEAS Transactions on BIOLOGY and BIOMEDICINE},
author = {Kokkinakis, Dimitrios and Toporowska Gronostaj, Maria},
year = {2006},
volume = {3},
number = {6},
pages = {429--437},
}