Advancing Medical Communication: Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multimodal Processing for Translation and Simplification

Maria Pia Di Buono


Abstract
This paper presents the Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multimodal Medical Language Processing (4MLP) Project, funded through a competitive call of the University of Naples ”L’Orientale” (Italy). 4MLP aims at developing multilingual,multicultural, and multimodal language technologies for healthcare to bridge complex medical knowledge and patients’ needs, supporting inclusive and effective healthcare communication while advancing explainable and culturally aware Artificial Intelligence.
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2026.eamt-2.21
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Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2)
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June
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2026
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Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Dimitar Shterionov, Eva Vanmassenhove, Mirella De Sisto, Fred Blain, Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami, Lisa Lepp, Chiara Manna, Argentina Anna Rescigno, Alina Karakanta, Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Manuel Lardelli, Natalia Resende, Elena Murgolo, Janiça Hackenbuchner, Anna Zaretskaya, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Thierry Etchegoyhen, Dagmar Gromann, Rachel Bawden, Barry Haddow, Sara Szoc, Mikel Forcada, Helena Moniz
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EAMT
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European Association for Machine Translation
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43–44
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Maria Pia Di Buono. 2026. Advancing Medical Communication: Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multimodal Processing for Translation and Simplification. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2), pages 43–44, Tilburg, The Netherlands. European Association for Machine Translation.
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