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Health in my Language

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.

Call for proposal

H2020-ICT-2014

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Sub call

H2020-ICT-2014-1

Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Net EU contribution
€ 785 083,75
Address
Old College, South Bridge
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom

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Region
Eastern Scotland Edinburgh
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 0,00

Participants (6)

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA
Czechia
Net EU contribution
€ 475 000,00
Address
Ovocny Trh 560/5
116 36 Praha 1

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Region
Praha Hlavní město Praha
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 0,00
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Germany
Net EU contribution
€ 510 875,00
Address
Geschwister Scholl Platz 1
80539 Muenchen

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Region
Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 0,00
LINGEA SRO
Czechia
Net EU contribution
€ 237 562,50
Address
Nalepkova 131
637 00 Brno

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Region
Jihovýchod Jihomoravský kraj
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 101 812,50
NHS 24 (SCOTLAND)
United Kingdom
Net EU contribution
€ 547 425,00
Address
Fifty Pitches Road 140
G51 4EB Glasgow

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Region
West Central Scotland Glasgow City
Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 0,00
THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION
United Kingdom
Net EU contribution
€ 345 758,96
Address
St Alban House 57-59 Haymarket
SW1Y 1QX London

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Region
London Inner London — West Camden and City of London
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 0,00
Third-party

Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.

COCHRANE INFORMATICS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT DENMARK APS
Denmark
Net EU contribution
€ 47 866,04
Address
Frederiksdalsvej 70
2830 Virum

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Region
Danmark Hovedstaden Københavns omegn
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 20 514,02