- Matthias Eck, S. Vogel, A. Waibel. 2004. Improving Statistical Machine Translation in the Medical Domain using the Unified Medical Language system. Abstract: Texts from the medical domain are an important task for natural language processing. This paper investigates the usefulness of a large medical database (the Unified Medical Language System) for the translation of dialogues between doctors and patients using a statistical machine translation system. We are able to show that the extraction of a large dictionary and the usage of semantic type information to generalize the training data significantly improves the translation performance.
