A Cross-lingual Approach to Automatic ICD-10 Coding of Death Certificates by Exploring Machine Translation.

•Clinical diagnoses are usually sparse and biased, implying reduced interoperability.•This paper proposes a cross-lingual approach based on exploiting foreign language data.•Translations provide lexical diversity, but subject to mistakes and nuance losses.•Large amounts of translated data can be used for improving Machine Learninig methods.