Creating an SMT engine for pharmaceutical and medical texts in the Romanian-Spanish language pair

  • Adrià Martín Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalunya)
  • Víctor Peña-Irles Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalunya)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21814/lm.9.2.254

Abstract

This article describes the process of creation of a statistical machine translation engine specialised in medicine for the Romanian--Spanish language pair. The engine was based on free corpora available in internet. The article describes the use of the platform MTradumàtica developed in the context of a research project by the Tradumàtica research group, aimed at promoting the use of MT among translators. The article can be interpreted as the evidence that the aim of promoting MT among translators has been attained in this particular case, and it suggests that the profile of the translators is valid to carry out processes of customisation of MT engines.

Author Biography

Adrià Martín, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalunya)

Adrià Martín-Mor is a professor at the Departament de Traducció i d’Interpretació i d’Estudis de l’Àsia Oriental (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia) and at the Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica (Universidade de Casteddu, Sardinia). He is a member of the Tradumàtica research group at UAB, where he coordinates training programmes in translation technologies such as the Tradumàtica MA and the Tradumàtica Summer School. He holds an MA and a PhD on Translation Studies and his research interests are the automation of the translation process (Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation), minoritised languages and free software for translation.

Published
2017-12-31
How to Cite
Martín, A., & Peña-Irles, V. (2017). Creating an SMT engine for pharmaceutical and medical texts in the Romanian-Spanish language pair. Linguamática, 9(2), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.21814/lm.9.2.254
Issue
Vol. 9 No. 2
Section
Research Articles

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).