Helping the helpers: evaluating the impact of a controlled language checker on the intralingual and interlingual translation tasks involving volunteer health professionals
Rossetti, AlessandraORCID: 0000-0002-2162-9639 and O'Brien, SharonORCID: 0000-0003-4864-5986
(2019)
Helping the helpers: evaluating the impact of a controlled language checker on the intralingual and interlingual translation tasks involving volunteer health professionals.
Translation Studies, 12
(2).
pp. 253-271.
ISSN 1478-1700
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.
Metadata
Item Type:
Article (Published)
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
controlled language checker; text simplification; volunteer satisfaction;
machine translation quality; health information; non-profit organization
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Funders:
Irish Research Council (GOIPG/2017/1409), European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement N. 734211
ID Code:
23896
Deposited On:
01 Nov 2019 10:22 by
Alessandra Rossetti
. Last Modified 04 Jun 2020 14:04