Computer-based Support for Patients with Limited English

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  • Harold Somers
  • Hermione Lovel
چکیده

The paper describes a proposal for computerbased aids for patients with limited or no English. The paper describes the barriers to health-care experienced due to linguistic problems, then suggests some computer-based remedies incorporating a multi-engine machine translation system based on a corpus of doctorpatient interviews which provides a dialogue model for the system. The doctor's and patient's interfaces are described. Ideas from Augmentative and Alternative Communication and in particular picture-based communication are incorporated. The initial proposal will focus on Urduand Somali-speaking patients with respiratory problems.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004