Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT

Marianne Starlander; Pierrette Bouillon; Glenn Flores; Manny Rayner; Nikos Tsourakis

Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT

Marianne Starlander, Pierrette Bouillon, Glenn Flores, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis

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This paper reports preliminary results of an evaluation during which two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT were compared in a hospital setting. The more restricted version (V.1) only allows Yes-No answers and short elliptical sentences, while the less restricted version (V.2) allows Yes-No answers, short elliptical sentences and full sentences. Although WER is marginally better for V.1, task performance is marginally worse. There appear to be two main reasons for this disparity; short sentences are often badly recognised and patients tend to find it difficult to limit themselves to ellipsis, even if they receive clear instructions about not using full sentences.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008
Pages	176-181
Number of pages	6
State	Published - 2008
Event	12th Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2008 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: Sep 22 2008 → Sep 23 2008

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Name	Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008

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Other	12th Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2008
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	9/22/08 → 9/23/08

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Language and Linguistics
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Starlander, M., Bouillon, P., Flores, G., Rayner, M., & Tsourakis, N. (2008). Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT. In Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008 (pp. 176-181). (Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008).

Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT. / Starlander, Marianne; Bouillon, Pierrette; Flores, Glenn et al.
Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008. 2008. p. 176-181 (Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Starlander, M, Bouillon, P, Flores, G, Rayner, M & Tsourakis, N 2008, Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT. in Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008. Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008, pp. 176-181, 12th Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2008, Hamburg, Germany, 9/22/08.

Starlander M, Bouillon P, Flores G, Rayner M, Tsourakis N. Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT. In Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008. 2008. p. 176-181. (Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008).

Starlander, Marianne ; Bouillon, Pierrette ; Flores, Glenn et al. / Comparing two different bidirectional versions of the limited-domain medical spoken language translator MedSLT. Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008. 2008. pp. 176-181 (Proceedings of the 12th European Association for Machine Translation Conference, EAMT 2008).

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