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Creating a medical English-Swedish dictionary using interactive word alignment

Mikael Nyström, Magnus Merkel, Lars Ahrenberg, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Håkan Petersson, Hans Åhlfeldt BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2006, 6:35 (12 October 2006)

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A novel method combining electronic word extraction and automated alignment rapidly generates a Swedish-English medical terminology dictionary with 31,000 entries and identifies inconsistencies in currently used terminology systems.