This paper reports on the work carried out developing MedLex+, a medical corpuslexicon workbench for Swedish. This project, which is still under active development, has been going on for some years now within the Department of Swedish language at Göteborg University. At the moment, the workbench incorporates: an annotated collection of medical texts-including 20 million tokens and 45,000 docume...

We present a framework for concept-based cross-language information retrieval in the medical domain, which is under development in the MUCHMORE project. Our approach is based on using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) as the primary source of semantic data. Documents and queries are annotated with multiple layers of linguistic information. Linguistic processing includes part-of-speech ...

This paper outlines the recent development on multilingual medical data and multilingual speech recognition system for network-based speech-to-speech translation in the medical domain. The overall speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system was designed to translate spoken utterances from a given source language into a target language in order to facilitate multilingual conversations and reduce ...

background: alcohol dependence (ad) is a major reason for morbidity and visits to emergency medical settings. however, the detection of ad is often difficult or overlooked. this study aimed to develop a brief screening questionnaire in hindi language for detection of ad in an emergency medical setting. methods:  the authors in consultation devised a set of questions related to ad in the hindi l...

In this paper, we want to show how the morphological component of an existing NLP-system for Dutch (Dutch Medical Language Processor DMLP) has been extended in order to produce output that is compatible with the language independent modules of the LSP-MLP system (Linguistic String Project Medical Language Processor) of the New York University. The former can take advantage of the language indep...

Medical language is at the heart of the electronic health record (EHR), with up to 70 percent of the information in that record being recorded in the natural language, free-text portion. In moving from paper medical records to EHRs, we have opened up opportunities for the reuse of this clinical information through automated search and analysis. Natural language, however, is challenging for comp...

A number of groups around the world are independently working on natural language interfaces (some multilingual) to sources of information such as progress notes, patient discharge summaries, radiology reports, digestive surgery discharge summaries, bone scintigraphy, slit lamp examination of the eye, and echocardiography. Each of these groups is using Conceptual Graphs as their universal medic...

Background: Alcohol dependence (AD) is a major reason for morbidity and visits to emergency medical settings. However, the detection of AD is often difficult or overlooked. This study aimed to develop a brief screening questionnaire in Hindi language for detection of AD in an emergency medical setting. Methods:  The authors in consultation devised a set of questions related to AD in the Hindi l...