title: Towards a multilingual medical lexicon.
abstract: We present results of the collaboration of a multinational team of researchers from (computational) linguistics, medicine, and medical informatics with the goal of building a multilingual medical lexicon with high coverage and complete morpho-syntactic information. Monolingual lexical resources were collected and subsequently mapped between languages using a morpho-semantic term normalization engine, which captures intra- as well as interlingual synonymy relationships on the level of subwords.
authors.affiliation: Freiburg University Hospital, Department of Medical Informatics, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Kornél
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marko
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baud
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zweigenbaum
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Borin
authors.forename: Magnus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Merkel
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D000465:Algorithms; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019303:Multilingualism; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012660:Semantics; D014175:Translating; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled