Enriching medical terminologies: an approach based on aligned corpora.
Medical terminologies such as those in the UMLS are never exhaustive and there is a constant need to enrich them, especially in terms of multilinguality. We present a methodology to acquire new French translations of English medical terms based on word alignment in a parallel corpus - i.e. pairing of corresponding words. We automatically collected a 27.7-million-word parallel, English-French corpus. Based on a first 1.3-million-word extract of this corpus, we detected 10,171 candidate French translations of English medical terms from MeSH and SNOMED, among which 3,807 are new translations of English MeSH terms.
Deleger
Louise
L
INSERM U729, Paris, France. louise.deleger@spim.jussieu.fr
Merkel
Magnus
M
Zweigenbaum
Pierre
P
D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014175:Translating