Dating Medical Translations

Speed Dating for Medical School Admissions

Although medical schools take every precaution in selecting benevolent individuals to be trained as physicians, an international study has revealed that 5% of doctors worldwide have recurrent issues that warrant disciplinary action by medical boards. These issues include violations of professionalism, unethical behavior, negligence, and in some cases criminal intent, reflective of deficiencies ...

Automatic Extraction of Medical Term Variants from Mutilingual Parallel Translations

The extraction of terms and their variants is an important issue in various applications of natural language processing (NLP), such as question answering and information retrieval. In this chapter we discuss a method to automatically extract medical terms and their variants from a multilingual corpus of parallel translations. As a first step terms are extracted using a pattern-based approach. I...

Early American English translations of European medical works.

A COMMONLY-HELD assumption is that to publish a catalogue of a library leads to an increase in the use of that library. The assumption is probably, though not necessarily, well grounded and difficult to refute; for it seems fairly self-evident that anything which serves to indicate the presence and availability of books in a certain place will tend to draw someone to them. Nevertheless, true th...

Translations

Possible - Translations

This text aims at providing a bird's eye view of possible-translations semantics ([10, 24]), defined, developed and illustrated as a very comprehensive formalism for obtaining or for representing semantics for all sorts of logics. With that tool, a wide class of complex logics will very naturally turn out to be (de)composable by way of some suitable combination of simpler logics. Several exampl...