The aim of the EDiCT project is the compilation of a termbase on the broad topic of “communication within businesses, organizations and the press” and the theoretical study of this ...read more
The aim of the project is to take the comprehensive medical thesaurus Medical Subject Headings as the starting point for a bilingual termbase (English and Dutch) using the ...read more
In 1976 the Oxford ethologist Richard Dawkins published a book that would become one of the most popular and most influential science books of the 20th century: The Selfish Gene. ...read more
Africa has been a scientific object in its own right for European bureaucracies since the eighteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, explorers, mapmakers, natural history collectors and ...read more
The UGent Corpusfinder database attempts to provide an overview of existing corpora for the languages taught at the Department of Linguistics, Ghent University. The database was released for the university ...read more
Contragram's present six year research project focuses on the relation between grammatical structure and meaning in Dutch, French and English from a contrastive and corpus-based perspective. Specific areas of interest ...read more
Cancer is a major killer. In Belgium, cancer is currently responsible for a third of all deaths and the second most important cause of death. Despite its prominent position in ...read more