Question

I currently have enormous amount of medical records which consists medical terms that need to be translated. For cost consideration, we don't want to translate every term for each record. For example, if we found the terms in a record are already frequently appeared in previous records which means these terms might be translated already in previous record, then we don't want to translate them again. I was asked to design a program to accomplish this goal. Hints I got is that I may need to break the records to alphabet level, and matrix may needed to solve this problem. I am literally a beginner in programming. Therefore, I'm looking for help here. Brutal thoughts/suggestions are enough for now. Thanks.

Answer 1

For translating the medical terms you can go for data structure like dictionary/Map where the Keys to be stored are the Medical terms or the words and the value will be the translated word.

While parsing through a medical record word by word you can look up in the dictionary or the map whether that particular word exists If that word exists then you can use the same translated value corresponding to that key.

If it does not exists then you can add that to the dictionary with the translated word which can be used in the future while traversing the record.