SciBabel : a system for crowd-sourced validation of automatic translations of scientific texts

Scientific research is mostly published in English, regardless of the researcher’s nationality. However, this growing practice impairs or hinders the comprehension of professionals who depend on the results of these studies to provide adequate care for their patients. We suggest that machine transla...

ver descrição completa

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Soares, Felipe, Rebechi, Rozane Rodrigues, Stevenson, Mark
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/218665
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10183/218665
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Tradução automática
Biomedicina
Terminologia
Linguística
Crowdsourcing
Linguistics
Machine translation
Medical informatics applications
PubMed
Descrição
Resumo:Scientific research is mostly published in English, regardless of the researcher’s nationality. However, this growing practice impairs or hinders the comprehension of professionals who depend on the results of these studies to provide adequate care for their patients. We suggest that machine translation (MT) can be used as a way of providing useful translation for biomedical articles, even though the translation itself may not be fluent. To tackle possible mistranslation that can harm a patient, we resort to crowd-sourced validation of translations. We developed a prototype of MT validation and edition, where users can vote for that translation as valid, or suggest modifications (i.e., post-editing the MT). A glossary match system is also included, aiming at terminology consistency.