The spoken dialogue translation project NESPOLE! proposed two showcases in order to focus on two important issues: scalability-namely, the capability of a system to progressively handle larger portions of a given domain and cross-domain portability. Those concerns were rather new when the project was proposed. ShowCase-1 dealt with limited tourism, while ShowCase-2 consisted of ShowCase-2a on e...

224 words) A subcategory of medical tourism, reproductive tourism has been the subject of much public and policy debate in recent years. Specific concerns include the exploitation of individuals and communities, access to needed health care services, fair allocation of limited resources, and the quality and safety of services provided by private clinics. To date, the focus of attention has been...

In this paper we present the multilingual VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol networks) corpora collected for the second showcase of the Nespole! project in the tourism and medical domains. The corpora comprise over 20 hours of human-tohuman monolingual dialogues in English, French, German and Italian: 66 dialogues in the tourism domain and 49 in the medical domain. We describe in detail the dat...

Along with a handful of other nations in the developing world, Brazil has emerged as a top destination for medical tourism. Drawing on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in plastic surgery wards, this article examines diverse factors - some explicitly promoted in medical marketing and news sources, others less visible - contributing to Brazil's international reputation for excellence in cosmet...

INTRODUCTION Some patients travel out of, while others come into Africa for medical care through a growing global phenomenon referred to as medical tourism (MT): the travel in search of medical care that is either unavailable, unaffordable or proscribed at home healthcare systems. While some castigate MT as promoting healthcare inequity, others endorse it as a revenue generator, promising local...

The purpose – Accurately forecasting the demand for international health tourism is important to newly-emerging markets in the world. The aim of this study was presents a more suitable and accurate model for forecasting the demand for health tourism that should be more theoretically useful. Design – Applying GM(1,1) with adaptive levels of α (hereafter GM(1,1)-α model) to provide a concise pred...

neil lunt and russel mannion provide an overview of the current state of the medical tourism literature and propose areas for future research in health policy and management. the authors also identify the main unanswered questions in this field ranging from the real size of the medical tourism market to the particular health profiles of transnational patients. in addition, they highlight unexpl...

Introduction: Planning in the field of medical tourism is of particular importance. The main objective of this research was to identify and analyze the factors affecting the growth of medical tourism in Iran. It could be a small step toward promoting entrepreneurship and increasing non-oil revenues in the country. Methods: Studies published in the Persian...