Localisation has long been regarded as an appropriate domain for the deployment of MT. This paper reports the results of a qualitative study which investigated the activities of professional translators working in a Language Services Provider. We analyse the observed work practices and highlight issues related to translation efficiency, quality assessment and teamwork. These issues may impact o...

In this article techniques borrowed from Computer Algebra (Gröbner Bases) are applied to deal with Medical Appropriateness Criteria including uncertainty. The knowledge was provided in the format of a table. A previous translation of the table into the format of a “Rule Based System” (denoted RBS) based on a three-valued logic is required beforehand to apply these techniques. Once the RBS has b...

background: knee pain is one of the most common reasons patients visit their physician. in this regard magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is the tool of preference for diagnosis. the aim of this study was to determine appropriate guidelines for knee mri administration using the rand appropriateness method (ram)-2013   methods: this qualitative study was done in the mashhad university of medical s...

The revised Patients’ Attitudes Towards Deprescribing (rPATD) questionnaire allows capture of the beliefs and attitudes older adults caregivers towards deprescribing. To translate validate rPATD into French. French was translated using forward-backward translation. Psychometric properties were evaluated in both ?65 years living community or institutions who taking at least one chronic medicatio...

Patent claim sentences, despite their legal importance in patent documents, still pose difficulties for state-of-the-art statistical machine translation (SMT) systems owing to their extreme lengths and their special sentence structure. This paper describes a method for improving the translation quality of claim sentences, by taking into account the features specific to the claim sublanguage. Ou...