Q: Medical Prescriptions

accuosto@fddi.fing.edu.uy
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:05:25 -0300 (GRNLNDST)

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>
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in the translation of medical prescription texts
> (I don't know if this is the right technical expresion) like the
> following:
>
>
> 1) The first day of each month in 1996 the patient should
> do treatment XX
>
> 2) the first two months after the operation the patient must
> follow treatment ZZ every other day.
>
> 3) From now on the patient must exercise for half an hour
> between 8 and 11 am three days per week.
>
> 4) During June 1996 the patient must take pill XX every three hours.
>
> 5) From now on the patient should alternate 10 days of treatment XX
> and 10 days of rest.
>
> I am particularly interested in texts that express temporal intervals
> and repetition. I am working in the translation of this kind of
> texts into a temporal logic language.
>
> I would like to know about related work in this field and also where
> could I get this kind of corpora (if it really exists) in english or
> spanish.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Please, post answers to accuosto@fing.edu.uy
>
> Pablo Accuosto
>
> LLC (Computational Linguistics Laboratory)
> Facultad de Ingenieria
> Universidad de la Republica
> Montevideo - Uruguay
>
>