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Helping the helpers : evaluating the impact of a controlled language checker on the intralingual and interlingual translation tasks involving volunteer health professionals
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Author
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Abstract
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| Cochrane is a non-profit organization which mainly relies on volunteer health professionals for the production, simplification, evaluation, and multilingual dissemination of high-quality health content. The approach that Cochrane volunteers adopt for the simplification (or intralingual translation) of English health content is non-automated and involves the manual checking and implementation of plain language guidelines. This study investigated whether and to what extent the introduction of a controlled language (CL) checker - which would make the simplification approach semi-automated - increased authors' satisfaction and machine translation (MT) quality. Twelve Cochrane authors completed a standardized questionnaire and answered follow-up questions on their level of satisfaction and preferences. Forty-one Cochrane evaluators assessed the quality of the Spanish MT outputs of simplified texts. Authors showed a preference for the introduction of a CL checker. Differences in MT quality scores were slight. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Translation studies. - London, 2008, currens
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Publication
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London
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2019
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ISSN
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1478-1700
[print]
1751-2921
[online]
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DOI
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10.1080/14781700.2019.1689161
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Volume/pages
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12
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(2019)
, p. 253-271
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ISI
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000498867800001
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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