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> [!NOTE]
> Dataset origin: https://zenodo.org/records/2205690


## Introduction

Hand crafted glossaries are a particularly valuable resource for the medical translator community and have shown to boost performance of MT systems.

This repository contains forty-six bilingual medical glossaries for various language pairs generated from free online medical glossaries and dictionaries made by professional translators.  


| Language pairs | Num. entries | Language pairs | Num. entries | Language pairs | Num. entries |
| -------------- | ------------ | -------------- | ------------ | -------------- | ------------ |
| Arabic-English   | 9844 | English-Hindi | 124 | French-German | 169  |
| Bengali-English | 876 | English-Hungarian | 3631 | French-Italian | 118  |
| Bulgarian-English | 349 | English-Indonesian | 494  | French-Spanish | 181  |
| Chinese-English | 93736 | English-Italian | 24351 | German-Italian |  982  |
| Croatian-English |339  | English-Japanese | 27974 | German-Portuguese | 2056 |
| Croatian-French | 235 | English-Korean | 110382 | German-Romanian | 109  |
| Croatian-German | 117  | English-Norwegian | 44  | German-Russian | 233  |
| Danish-English | 194  | English-Polish | 4250  | German-Spanish | 7029  |
| Danish-Polish | 166  | English-Portuguese | 2623 | German-Swedish | 2232  |
| Dutch-English | 10453 | English-Romanian | 210 | Italian-Spanish | 199 |
| Dutch-French | 650  | English-Russian | 4774 |  Latin-Polish | 237  |
| Dutch-Spanish | 71  | English-Slovenian | 947 | Latin-Russian | 2518 |
| Dutch-Turkish | 238 | English-Spanish | 125645 | Polish-Spanish | 273  |
| English-French | 7718 | English-Swedish | 1078  | Portuguese-Spanish | 62 |
| English-German | 19304 | English-Thai | 335  | Russian-Spanish | 127 |
| English-Greek | 2640 | English-Turkish | 7717  |


## Format

Glossaries are encoded in standard tab-separated values (tsv) format.


## Contact

Montserrat Marimon (montserrat.marimon@bsc.es)


## Citation
```
Montserrat Marimon, & Martin Krallinger. (2018). MeSpEn_Glossaries (2018-12-01) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2205690
```