Objective
To an ever-increasing extent, web-based services are providing a frontline for healthcare information in Europe. They help citizens find answers to their questions and help them understand and find the local services they need. However, due to the number of languages spoken in Europe, and the mobility of its population, there is a high demand for these services to be available in many languages. In order to satisfy this demand, we need to rely on automatic translation, as it is infeasible to manually translate into all languages requested. The aim of HimL is to use recent advances in machine translation to create and deploy a system for the automatic translation of public health information, with a special focus on meaning preservation. In particular, we will include recent work on domain adaptation, translation into morphological rich languages, terminology management, and semantically enhanced machine translation to build reliable machine translation for the health domain. The aim will be to create usable, reliable, fully automatic translation of public health information, initially testing with translation from English into Czech, Polish, Romanian and German. In the HimL project we will iterate cycles of incorporating improvements into the MT systems, with careful evaluation and user acceptance testing.
Fields of science
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringmining and mineral processing
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineendocrinologydiabetes
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningdeep learning
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputational intelligence
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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Participants (6)
116 36 Praha 1
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80539 Muenchen
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637 00 Brno
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G51 4EB Glasgow
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SW1Y 1QX London
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2830 Virum
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