The Comprehension of Medical Words - Cross-lingual Experiments in French and Xhosa

Natalia Grabar, Izak van Zyl, Retha de la Harpe, Thierry Hamon

2014

Abstract

This paper presents cross-lingual experiments in automatic detection of medical words that may be difficult to understand by patients. The study relies on Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods, conducted in three steps, across two languages, French and Xhosa: (1) the French data are processed by NLP methods and tools to reproduce the manual categorization of words as understandable or not; (2) the Xhosa data are clustered with a non-supervised algorithm; (3) an analysis of the Xhosa results and their comparison with the results observed on the French data is performed. Some similarities between the two languages are observed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Grabar N., van Zyl I., de la Harpe R. and Hamon T. (2014). The Comprehension of Medical Words - Cross-lingual Experiments in French and Xhosa . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-010-9, pages 334-342. DOI: 10.5220/0004803803340342

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf14,
author={Natalia Grabar and Izak van Zyl and Retha de la Harpe and Thierry Hamon},
title={The Comprehension of Medical Words - Cross-lingual Experiments in French and Xhosa},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={334-342},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004803803340342},
isbn={978-989-758-010-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2014)
TI - The Comprehension of Medical Words - Cross-lingual Experiments in French and Xhosa
SN - 978-989-758-010-9
AU - Grabar N.
AU - van Zyl I.
AU - de la Harpe R.
AU - Hamon T.
PY - 2014
SP - 334
EP - 342
DO - 10.5220/0004803803340342