This paper refers to work carried out in the Subspeak project [1] in which we are investigating the use of speech recognition in live television subtitling. Research to date has shown that with current speech recognition technology it is not possible to achieve a satisfactory level of accuracy in the direct transcription of broadcast material. To circumvent this problem in our system the broadc...

Within the medical field, very specialized terms are commonly used, while their understanding by laymen is not always successful. We propose to study the understandability of medical words by laymen. Three annotators are involved in the creation of the reference data used for training and testing. The features of the words may be linguistic (i.e., number of characters, syllables, number of morp...

Morphological knowledge (inflection, derivation, compounds) is useful for medical language processing. Some is available for medical English in the UMLS Specialist Lexicon, but not for the French language. Large corpora of medical texts can nowadays be obtained from the Web. We propose here a method, based on the cooccurrence of formally similar words, which takes advantage of such a corpus to ...