V. Claveau > Publications > Claveau & Zweigenbaum TALN'05 Article Abstract OLST Version française Vincent Claveau, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Traduction de termes biomédicaux par inférence de transducteurs, Actes de la 12ème conférence de Traitement automatique des langues naturelles (TALN'05), Dourdan, France, June 2005, Document (pdf) Abstract This paper presents and evaluates a method to automatically translate simple terms from French into English and English into French in the biomedical domain. It relies on a machine-learning technique that infers transducers from examples of bilingual pairs of terms; no additional resources or knowledge is needed. Then, these transducers, making the most of high translation regularities in the biomedical domain, can be used to translate new French terms into English or vice versa. Evaluations reported show that our technique achieves good successful translation rates (between 52 and 67%). When examining at the most frequent errors made, some inherent limits of our approach are identified, and several avenues are proposed in order to bypass them. Finally, some perspectives are put forward to extend this work.