A Machine Translation Approach for Medical Terms

Alejandro Renato, José Castaño, Pilar Ávila, Hernán Berinsky, Laura Gambarte, Hee Park, David Pérez, Carlos Otero, Daniel Luna

2018

Abstract

We describe the task of translating clinical term descriptions from Spanish to Brazilian Portuguese. We build a statistical machine translation system (SMT) using in-domain parallel corpora and available machine learning tools. The performance of this SMT was compared with general purpose machine translation systems available online. We used different techniques to validate the result of the different systems, using reference domain terminology and the occurrence of translated descriptions in a corpus of medical scientific literature and in domain specific web pages. We also use two sets of 1000 description terms that were revised and checked by a Portuguese speaker. The performance of the SMT we built had very good preliminary results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Renato A., Castaño J., Ávila P., Berinsky H., Gambarte L., Park H., Pérez D., Otero C. and Luna D. (2018). A Machine Translation Approach for Medical Terms. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-281-3, SciTePress, pages 369-378. DOI: 10.5220/0006555003690378

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf18,
author={Alejandro Renato and José Castaño and Pilar Ávila and Hernán Berinsky and Laura Gambarte and Hee Park and David Pérez and Carlos Otero and Daniel Luna},
title={A Machine Translation Approach for Medical Terms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2018},
pages={369-378},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006555003690378},
isbn={978-989-758-281-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - A Machine Translation Approach for Medical Terms
SN - 978-989-758-281-3
AU - Renato A.
AU - Castaño J.
AU - Ávila P.
AU - Berinsky H.
AU - Gambarte L.
AU - Park H.
AU - Pérez D.
AU - Otero C.
AU - Luna D.
PY - 2018
SP - 369
EP - 378
DO - 10.5220/0006555003690378
PB - SciTePress