Natural Language Modeling in a Machine Translation Prototype for Healthcare Applications: a Sublanguage Approach
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This paper discusses methodological issues related to natural language modeling in the framework of the LRE project ANTHEM 1. The objective of ANTHEM is to develop a portable prototype of a multilingual natural language interface that allows users of Healthcare Information Systems to enter diagnostic expressions using their own natural language, and to have this input translated in whatever formal, structured or natural language. We describe the approach adopted in the modeling of the ANTHEM application language in the prospect of the ANTHEM lingware development. This approach is motivated by the notion of sublanguage.
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