Improving statistical machine translation in the medical domain using the unified medical language system

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Eck, Matthias ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

MEDICAL DATABASE; MEDICAL DOMAINS; PERFORMANCE; SEMANTIC TYPES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRAINING DATA; TYPE INFORMATION; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 79960897230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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