Fallacies... Translated from Spanish

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Spanish Influenza in Mashhad from 1918 to 1920

Spanish flu was one of the harshest historical pandemics in the northeastern Iran, which killed many local people. Its first outbreak in Mashhad dates back to August 3 and 4, 1918. This disease continued until 1920 in successive waves. The death toll of this disease in Mashhad (with a population of 100,000 people at the time) was possibly as high as 3,500. Moreover, this disease caused outbreak...

[Usefulness of a brief informant interview to detect dementia, translated into Spanish (AD8-Ch)].

Utilidad de un cuestionario breve dirigido al informante para el diagnóstico temprano de casos de demencia: La versión chilena del AD8 (AD8-Ch)

Educating Parents in the Spanish-Speaking Community: A Look at Translated Educational Materials

Federal legislation (White House Executive Order 13166, 2000) mandates that language services be provided to limited English proficient populations by health care providers receiving federal funding. In order to do this, some basic resources have been developed to administer medical services. Nevertheless, the translation aspects of these guidelines often lack many components that would be nece...

Low-Cost Enrichment of Spanish WordNet with Automatically Translated Glosses: Combining General and Specialized Models

This paper studies the enrichment of Spanish WordNet with synset glosses automatically obtained from the English WordNet glosses using a phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation system. We construct the English-Spanish translation system from a parallel corpus of proceedings of the European Parliament, and study how to adapt statistical models to the domain of dictionary definitions. We bui...