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Differences in languages have to be bridged in order for intercultural communication to take place. Although the medical field requires highly accurate translations for promoting intercultural communication, the present level of support is insufficient. In this paper, we propose a system that uses parallel texts to support intercultural communication at hospital reception desks. Using parallel texts that have been translated accurately, the proposed system can provide this level of intercultural medical communication. We conducted an experiment to test the effectiveness of the system, which confirmed that it is possible to provide accurate intercultural communication using parallel texts. The experiment compared our system with the conventional system, which uses a printed list of parallel texts, and showed that the retrieval time of the proposed system is about the same as that of the conventional system.
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Miyabe, M., Fujii, K., Shigenobu, T., Yoshino, T. (2007). Parallel-Text Based Support System for Intercultural Communication at Medical Receptions. In: Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds) Intercultural Collaboration. IWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_14
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