Upon the completion of its highly successful TAUM-METEO machine translation system, the TAUM group undertook the construction of TAUM-AVIATION, an experimental system for English to French translation in the sublanguage of technical maintenance manuals. A detailed description of the resulting prototype is offered. In particular, the paper includes: a) some figures on the size of the system; b) ...

Medical language processing depends on large-coverage, fine-grained specialized lexicons. The vast majority of existing electronic lexicons concern the English language; for other languages such as French, resources are scarce. In contrast, large medical thesauri exist in numerous languages, including French. Our goal was to study what kind of linguistic information could be extracted from thes...

Pediatric maxilla facial fractures are rare compared to adult maxilla facial injuries. However, they follow a different pattern of presentation and management principles. As the facial bones in children are in the developing stage, they have to be managed using the most conservative methods possible. Since children have a less hemodynamic reserve, other serious injuries have to be also dealt si...

We review the techniques and tools used for regression testing, the primary quality assurance measure, in a multi-site research project working towards a high-quality Norwegian –English MT demonstrator. A combination of hand-constructed test suites, domain-specific corpora, specialized software tools, and somewhat rigid release procedures is used for semi-automated diagnostic and regression eva...

We describe preliminary work in the creation of the first specialized vocabulary to be integrated into the Open Multilingual Wordnet (OMW). The NCIt Derived WordNet (ncitWN) is based on the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIt), a controlled biomedical terminology that includes formal class restrictions and English definitions developed by groups of clinicians and terminologists. The ncitW...

Collection and annotation of corpora in specialized fields, such as medicine, and particularly for lesser-spoken languages, than for instance English, is an important enterprise for the continuous development and growth of language technology research, for resource development and for the implementation of practical applications for these languages. In this paper, we describe our ongoing effort...

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Aviation English is a specialized language mainly used in aviation, such as aircraft maintenance areas. Teaching usually faces more challenges compared with teaching general English. It pays attention to the specific needs of learners and context. Therefore, this study aimed discuss teachers students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted three from different aviation schools Malaysia. The ...

OBJECTIVES We present in this article experiments on multi-language information extraction and access in the medical domain. For such applications, multilingual terminology plays a crucial role when working on specialized languages and specific domains. MATERIAL AND METHODS We propose firstly a method for enriching multilingual thesauri which extracts new terms from parallel corpora, and seco...

BACKGROUND The Internet is increasingly used as a source of information for mental health issues. The burden of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) may lead persons with diagnosed or undiagnosed OCD, and their relatives, to search for good quality information on the Web. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Web-based information on English-language sites dealing with OCD and to compare t...