Language Engineering and the Pathway to Healthcare: A user-oriented view

HLT/NAACL 2006 - Medical Speech Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 28-35

  Somers, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE ENGINEERING; MEDICAL DOMAINS; POSITION PAPERS; ROLE PLAYING; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; USER ORIENTED; USER'S PROFILES;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 85188516642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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