Technological Devices Improve System of Translating Languages: What About their Usefulness on the Applicability in Medicine and Health Sciences?

Abstract

INTRODUCTIONIn a world in which global communication is becoming ever more important and in which English is increasingly positioned as the pre-eminent international language, that is, English as a Lingua Franca refers to the use of English as a medium of communication between peoples of different languages. It is important to highlight the positive advances in communication in health, provided by technology.OBJECTIVETo present an overview on some technological devices of translating languages provided by the Web as well as to point out some advantages and disadvantages specially using Google Translate in Medicine and Health Sciences.METHODSA bibliographical survey was performed to provide an overview on the usefulness of online translators for applicability using written and spoken languages.RESULTSAs we have to consider this question to be further surely answered, this study could present some advantages and disadvantages in using translating online devices.CONCLUSIONConsidering Medicine and Health Sciences as expressive into the human scientific knowledge to be spread worldwidely; technological devices available on communication should be used to overcome some language barriers either written or spoken, but with some caution depending on the context of their applicability.

English-Arabic Hybrid Machine Translation System using EBMT and Translation Memory

“…From example (4) { ‫الكلى‬ } need to be replaced from (4a3) with {liver} from (4a1), from example (5) { ‫}التهاب‬ need to be replaced from (5a3) with { arthrosis } from (5a1) and from example (6) { ‫}الرئة‬ need to be replaced from (6a3) with { nasal} from (6a1). And the results will be the sentence in (7), (8) and (9). 7liver ‫لوظائف‬ ‫خلل‬ (8) arthrosis (9) nasal ‫احتقان‬ During the aligning the alignment might not only one to one align.…”

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Evaluation of a Language Translation App in an Undergraduate Medical Communication Course: Proof-of-Concept and Usability Study

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