Patient Information Language Localisation System

The objective of the PILLS project is to facilitate the development of digital content for the European medical and pharmaceutical products industries through a multilingual authoring application designed to support various sectors, including pharmaceutical developers and manufacturers, health portal publishers, and healthcare eMarketplaces.

Specific objectives of the project are to:

• Validate the need for multilingual authoring, and the feasibility of a knowledge-based approach in the medical/pharmaceutical domain, using an existing multilingual authoring prototype.

• Assess the viability and cost-effectiveness of multilingual authoring as an alternative to localisation - generally for selected domains and in detail for the medical domain.

• Evaluate the impact multilingual authoring could have on the digital delivery of information in the healthcare field (availability to consumers, standardisation of content across the EU, potential for supporting new business models).

• Develop a showcase demonstrator to illustrate and verify the feasability of the multilingual authoring concept

• Identify paths to market for a multilingual authoring application, and potential partners for the customisation of the application for various publishing purposes.

• PILLS Leaflet [pdf]

• White paper [pdf]

• Presentation of Wysiwym [ppt] [html]

• Presentation of the PILLS Project [ppt] [html]

• Corpus of Patient Information Leaflets

• Bouayad-Agha, Nadjet, Richard Power, Donia Scott and Anja Belz (2002) PILLS: Multilingual generation of medical inf ormation documents with overlapping content. In Proceedings of LREC 2002, pp. 2111-2114. [abstract, pdf]
• Scott, Donia, Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Richard Power, Stefan Schulz, Reiner Beck, Dawn Murphy and Rose Lockwood (2001). PILLS: A Multilingual Authoring System for Patient Information. In: Bakken S (Hrsg): Visions of the Future and Lessons from the Past. Proceedings of the 2001 AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington, November 3-7. Hanley & Belfus, 2001, p.1023. [abstract, pdf]

1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001.