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A web-based multilingual parallel corpus collection system for the medical field

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Takashi Yoshino,

Taku Fukushima,

Mai Miyabe,

Aguri ShigenoAuthors Info & Claims

IWIC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1499224.1499287

Published: 20 February 2009 Publication History

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We have developed a Web-based multilingual parallel corpus collection system named TackPad for medical workers and foreign patients. The number of foreign visitors and residents in Japan is increasing. However, it is not sufficient to provide linguistic support via medical translators to people who do not understand Japanese. In particular, poor communication may lead to medical errors. Moreover, there are limitations to a medical translator's support. It is difficult to use machine translations in the medical field because of their inaccuracy. A system that uses parallel corpora with guaranteed accuracy appears to be useful. However, a huge amount of parallel corpora related to specialty fields and in several languages is required in the medical field. It would be difficult for a limited number of people to accumulate a sufficient amount of parallel corpora. Therefore, we have specially designed a support system named TackPad for the medical field; this system can accurately register parallel corpora and supply this data to other systems. TackPad adopts a Web 2.0 approach and can be used to tap people's capabilities for knowledge accumulation. The purpose of TackPad is to collect parallel corpora; other systems can use the corpus via the Internet. We have obtained various responses from the result of the trial experiment. The experiment has demonstrated the practicality of the system, for example, people of various age groups and from various occupations can actually use the system.

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FUKUSHIMA TYOSHINO T(2014)Translation Repair Method for Improving Accuracy of Translated SentencesIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1528E97.D:6(1528-1534)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1528
Fukushima TYoshino T(2012)Automatic Translation Repair Method for Improving Accuracy of Translated SentencesProceedings of the 2012 Seventh International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems10.1109/KICSS.2012.17(43-49)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/KICSS.2012.17
Fukushima TYoshino TShigeno A(2011)Development of multilingual interview-sheet composition system to support multilingual communication in medical fieldProceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part II10.5555/2041341.2041346(31-40)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2041341.2041346
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A web-based multilingual parallel corpus collection system for the medical field
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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DOI:10.1145/1499224

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FUKUSHIMA TYOSHINO T(2014)Translation Repair Method for Improving Accuracy of Translated SentencesIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1528E97.D:6(1528-1534)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1587/transinf.E97.D.1528
Fukushima TYoshino T(2012)Automatic Translation Repair Method for Improving Accuracy of Translated SentencesProceedings of the 2012 Seventh International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems10.1109/KICSS.2012.17(43-49)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/KICSS.2012.17
Fukushima TYoshino TShigeno A(2011)Development of multilingual interview-sheet composition system to support multilingual communication in medical fieldProceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part II10.5555/2041341.2041346(31-40)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2041341.2041346
Fukushima TYoshino TShigeno A(2011)Proposal and Evaluation of an Extraction Method for Inaccurate Example Sentences Using a Web Search Engine for Multilingual Parallel TextsProceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshops of International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications10.1109/WAINA.2011.97(538-543)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/WAINA.2011.97
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Miyabe MYoshino TShigeno A(2011)Sharing Multilingual Resources to Support Hospital ReceptionsThe Language Grid10.1007/978-3-642-21178-2_8(119-132)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21178-2_8

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