During the project a great number of medical companies, translation companies and consultancies testet the IT tool Medicinal Products Corpus and took part in a dialogue to find ways of further developing the tool.

Medicinal Products Corpus is a web-based tool for medical language translations allowing you to search and re-use approved translations of medical product information.

High demands on medicinal product texts
The formal demands on the language in medicinal product texts are high. In addition to a correct medicinal content, the texts that common consumers see on e.g. labels and patient information leaflets must be easy to understand. Therefore it is a great advantage that companies' language professionals have easy access to approved translations.

"My impression of the database is very positive and it has really been useful in many of my translations. The effect of whole sentences/contexts, instead of single words, is incredible"
Anette Fleisbo, Regulatory Affairs Assistant, Wyeth Danmark

Content of Medicinal Products Corpus
Medicinal Products Corpus collects approx. 450 translations of product descriptions, patient information leaflets and label texts. The translations are approved by EMA, the European Medicines Agency, that is in charge of approving the marketing of new medical products. When a medical company applies for the approval to market a new medical product, the Danish Medicines Agency and EMA are responsible for the evaluation of the applications. This procedure includes the approval of a number of texts about the product including product descriptions, patient information leaflets and label texts.

New possibilities
Medicinal Products Corpus is an example of how the Corpus tool may be used for medicinal product texts. KCL is continuously working on expanding the uses of this tool with new relevant text genres. In addition to searching Medicinal Products Corpus, companies can get access to creating their own text corpuses. Through this, companies can collect, search and re-use the texts they use most.

Expected results

• Much higher quality of the language in companies' translations
• Higher productivity through fast and easy access to approved translations
• Experience with user-driven development of the Corpus tool, that will benefit other specialist areas

Participating companies
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After the project
After the project Medicinal Product Corpus has been commercialised and is now sold through TermShare A/S.