Open Gender-sensitive Terminology Resources for the Digital Society: the Digitender Project (Short Paper)

Abstract

This paper will present the research project “Open multilingual gender-sensitive terminology resources for the digital society: the DIGITENDER project”, l ed by research groups at IULMA (University of Alicante) and the Computer Linguistics Laboratory at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The aim of the DIGITENDER project is twofold. Firstly, it aims to digitize the quality multilingual terminology resources (MTRs) already available at IULMA (specialized bilingual dictionaries of legal, economic, stock market, tourism, etc. terms) compiled some time ago and published by Ariel Editorial, and then publish them on the web in a findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable format (FAIR). Secondly, women will be visualized in two ways. We will then edit these MTR entries to mark the feminine gender in Spanish in some entries, which we will complete with new subdomains and terms the terminological glossaries already created on women’s health issues, which we call WHealth and which include glossaries on menopause, osteoporosis, breast cancer, uterine cancer, etc. DIGITENDER incorporates a gender perspective in the management of terminology on women’s health issues and the main pathologies which, because of their prevalence or the fact that they present differently in women to in men, are important to specifically study in women. Our aim is to make visible, through an extensive open terminology repository and terminology datasets in SKOS format, health issues that are particularly related to women. By thus making available to the public some of the issues that arise in this field, such as menopause, menstruation, etc., we also aim to break certain taboos and prototypes that lead to health problems. The project is therefore justified by our will to make available to the public our WHealth glossaries and to develop others from corpora to complete what will be a large repository of gender-sensitive terminology.