Towards a multilingual medical lexicon

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006:2006:534-8.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Abstracting and Indexing
  • Algorithms
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Multilingualism*
  • Natural Language Processing*
  • Semantics
  • Translating*
  • Unified Medical Language System
  • Vocabulary, Controlled*