Comparative structure of Homoeopathy language with other medical languages in machine translation system

摘要

Homoeopathy is a branch of medical science that treats the ailments with a very different approach when compared with allopathy or other branches of medical science. Its terminology also differs from other branches of medical science. As homoeopathy rests on a basic principle of nature, allopathic or other western methods do not pay any attention to the symptoms of the patient and the medicine is prescribed on the basis of the name of the ailment, whatever are the symptoms? An English-Hindi machine translation (MT) system for the translation of allopathic terminologies requires to translate only the ailment, therapeutic description, name of remedies and doctor's recommendation, but when it comes to translating the homoeopathic contents, necessitate to translate the general symptoms of the patient, ailments, name of medicines, and prescription. In fact the general medical MT system may not use symbols, doctor's prescriptions, symptoms of patient and medicines with potencies (such as Ipecac Q or 30, Ferrum met. 3X, Syphilinum 1M) the way they are used in Homoeopathy. In this paper, we try to explore the structure of homoeopathic language and compare it with the allopathic language which we experienced during the design of English-Hindi MT system for Homoeopathy. The system accuracy has been evaluated using Bleu score found out to be 0.7801 and accuracy percentage of the system is 82.23%, the proposed architecture has shown good results.