TY - JOUR
T1 - TRANSOFT
T2 - Medical translation expert system
AU - Moore, G. William
AU - Wakai, Ichiro
AU - Satomura, Yoichi
AU - Giere, Wolfgang
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - A medical expert system is a computer program designed to imitate the behavior of a medical expert. Translation of medical documents may be regarded as an area of medical expertise. Computer translators may also serve as an interface from the user's natural language into the formal language of some medical expert systems. TRANSOFT is a public-domain, table-driven medical document translator, written in MUMPS or GNOSIS (= MUMPS + PROLOG). Translations are obtained by implicit word parity across languages, contextual disambiguation in the source language, and word rearrangement from stereotypic source into stereotypic target language word order. TRANSOFT has properties of a Chomsky language generator and can be modelled as a dialogue between two scholars across an electronic communication medium. TRANSOFT is a mathematical group. Computer translators have potential applications in the international exchange of medical records, medical publications, and electronic mail across language barriers.
AB - A medical expert system is a computer program designed to imitate the behavior of a medical expert. Translation of medical documents may be regarded as an area of medical expertise. Computer translators may also serve as an interface from the user's natural language into the formal language of some medical expert systems. TRANSOFT is a public-domain, table-driven medical document translator, written in MUMPS or GNOSIS (= MUMPS + PROLOG). Translations are obtained by implicit word parity across languages, contextual disambiguation in the source language, and word rearrangement from stereotypic source into stereotypic target language word order. TRANSOFT has properties of a Chomsky language generator and can be modelled as a dialogue between two scholars across an electronic communication medium. TRANSOFT is a mathematical group. Computer translators have potential applications in the international exchange of medical records, medical publications, and electronic mail across language barriers.
KW - machine translation
KW - medical expert systems
KW - medical language
KW - parsing
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U2 - 10.1016/0933-3657(89)90029-8
DO - 10.1016/0933-3657(89)90029-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:10144246872
SN - 0933-3657
VL - 1
SP - 149
EP - 157
JO - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
JF - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
IS - 4
ER -