Identification of Fertile Translations in Medical Comparable Corpora: a Morpho-Compositional Approach

TL;DR

This paper presents a morpho-compositional method for extracting fertile translations in biomedical comparable corpora, enhancing lexicon quality for English-French translation by leveraging morpheme-level translation equivalences.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach that generates fertile translations using compositional translation and morpheme-level equivalences, improving lexicon extraction in the biomedical domain.

Findings

Fertile translations increase lexicon quality.

The method effectively generates morphologically complex translations.

Improves translation quality in biomedical English-French lexicons.

Abstract

This paper defines a method for lexicon in the biomedical domain from comparable corpora. The method is based on compositional translation and exploits morpheme-level translation equivalences. It can generate translations for a large variety of morphologically constructed words and can also generate 'fertile' translations. We show that fertile translations increase the overall quality of the extracted lexicon for English to French translation.