2022-05-31 - Translation User Group Meeting

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Drafting natural language descriptions from formal definitions

Cornelia

• Cornelia proposes to invite a presentation by Sara Carvalho on creating natural language definitions from the SNOMED ontology; group in favor.

  Ole: we should also inspect the existing definitions. Are there best practices we need to consider?

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Customised Machine translation 

Cornelia 

Cornelia proposes to invite Tilde for a presentation on possibilities for customised machine translation of SNOMED

Group in favor, provided Tilde will discuss any open-source data they use/provide

@Feikje Hielkema (Unlicensed) and @Maria-Cornelia Wermuth (Unlicensed) Schedule presentation for 

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Convention for abbreviations and acronyms

@Ole Kristian Våge 

International convention: acronym - full term (i.e. separated by hyphen). Most countries have adopted this.

Sweden uses brackets instead.

Netherlands and Estonia add the acronym as a separate synonym.

All countries generally add acronyms only as acceptable synonyms, but allow some acronyms as preferred terms: e.g. MRI, HIV, DNA. It is hard to draw a clear line though when an acronym is allowed as a preferred term.

Belgium uses a set of strict rules concerning acronyms, which @Nathalie De Sutter is willing to share with Ole.

@Maria-Cornelia Wermuth (Unlicensed) : from a terminological point of view, the acronym is a synonym.

However, Norway for instance has a rule that each description should be unique, also acceptable synonyms across concepts; that would clash with adding acronyms as separate synonyms, as they are frequently used for multiple terms. 

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JIRA issues

Feikje

https://projects.jira.snomed.org/browse/SCTF-58 Issue closed with solution: do not use superscript or subscript

https://projects.jira.snomed.org/browse/SCTF-24 Monica will look into this issue

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Any other business

Ole

Discussion to be scheduled later this year: what is a patient-friendly term?