Multilingual terminological resources do not always include valid equivalents of legal terms for two main reasons. Firstly, legal systems can differ from one language community to another and even from one country to another because each has its own history and traditions. As a result, the non-isomorphism between legal and linguistic systems may render the identification of equivalents a partic...

The aim of this paper is to present the most important features symmetric and asymmetric communication in field medicine as they are implemented Medical English course at Faculty Medicine University Niš. Symmetric represents form between experts or equals, while takes place professionals laypeople. Professionally oriented discourse scientific examples communication, doctor-patient encounter an ...

The web application "English at a Click", presented in this paper is used for learning specialized English. can be integrated into part of larger distance system, as supplement to traditional or an independent application. current version the implemented basic goal show different contexts which English word used, helps user choose most appropriate term when translating text from Serbian languag...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the relationship of sociodemographic and health dimensions with the quality of life of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus. METHOD descriptive and quantitative study. The subjects were 131 seropositive people treated in a specialized center of the Norte-Fluminense municipality, Brazil. A form with sociodemographic and health data was applied, as well as th...

Background One of the most debated topics in the surgery of the abdominal wall hernias is the type and location of the prosthesis and even the employment of prosthetic materials for some authors is an object of discussion [1,2]. The aim of this work is to present the experience of a specialized center in abdominal wall surgery, showing the results of open extraperitoneal prosthetic repair of th...

This paper describes a proposed new syntax that can be used to write and read OWL ontologies in Controlled Natural Language (CNL): a well-defined subset of the English language. Following the lead of Manchester OWL Syntax in making OWL more accessible for non-logicians, and building on the previous success of Schwitter’s PENG (Processable English), the proposed Sydney OWL Syntax enables two-way...

Much more Natural Language Processing (NLP) work has been performed on the English language than on any other. This general observation is also true of medical NLP, although clinical language processing needs are as strong in other languages as they are in English. In specific subdomains, such as drug prescription, the expression of information can be closely related across different languages,...