emi-Automatic Translation of Medical Terms from English to Swedish: SNOMED CT in Translation

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare has been supervisioning translations of the international clinical terminology SNOMED CT from English to Swedish. This study was carrying out to find whether semi-automatic methods of translation could generate an acceptable translation while needing fewer funds than manual translation. Using the medical English-Swedish dictionary TermColl translations of choosed subsets of SNOMED CT were shaped by ways of translation memory and statistical translation.

The resulting translations were estimated via BLEU score using translations offered by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare as reference before being contrasted with each other. The results demonstrated a strong advantage for statistical translation over use of a translation memory; however, overall translation results were far from satisfactory

Author: Lindgren, Anna

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