Neural machine translation of clinical texts between long distance languages

Xabier Soto, Olatz Perez-de-Viñaspre, Gorka Labaka, Maite Oronoz

Abstract: To analyze techniques for machine translation of electronic health records (EHRs) between long distance languages, using Basque and Spanish as a reference. We studied distinct configurations of neural machine translation systems and used different methods to overcome the lack of a bilingual corpus of clinical texts or health records in Basque and Spanish.