Title
A Hybrid Approach to Compiling Bilingual Dictionaries of Medical Terms from Parallel Corpora.
Abstract
Existing bilingual dictionaries of technical terms suffer from limited coverage and are only available for a small number of language pairs. In response to these problems, we present a method for automatically constructing and updating bilingual dictionaries of medical terms by exploiting parallel corpora. We focus on the extraction of multi-word terms, which constitute a challenging problem for term alignment algorithms. We apply our method to two low resourced language pairs, namely English-Greek and English-Romanian, for which such resources did not previously exist in the medical domain. Our approach combines two term alignment models to improve the accuracy of the extracted medical term translations. Evaluation results show that the precision of our method is 86% and 81% for English-Greek and English-Romanian respectively, considering only the highest ranked candidate translation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-11397-5_4
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Small number,Ranking,Computer science,Parallel corpora,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Random forest
Conference
8791
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.36
References 
Authors
25
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georgios Kontonatsios1458.03
Claudiu Mihăilă2324.35
Ioannis Korkontzelos324424.60
Paul Thompson4986.25
Sophia Ananiadou52658183.08