pierre-gerlier forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. in this commentary, i develop an additional argument in support of forest et al view. forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. translation of externally generated i...

Background Implementing effective interventions in healthcare requires organizations to be ready to support change. This study aimed to develop, adapt transculturally, and assess the content and face validity of the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) tool. The OR4KT was designed to measure the readiness of healthcare organizations to implement evidence-informed change ac...

We present algorithms for the translation of statecharts to the Abstract Machine Notation of the B method. These algorithms have been implemented in iState, a tool for translating statecharts to various programming languages. The translation proceeds in several phases. We give a model of statecharts, a model of the code in AMN, as well as the intermediate representations in terms of class diagr...

The objective of interactive translation prediction (ITP) is to assist human translators in the translation of texts by making context-based computer-generated suggestions as they type. Most of the ITP systems in literature are strongly coupled with a statistical machine translation system that is conveniently adapted to provide the suggestions. In this paper, however, we propose a resource-agn...

In machine translation, we must consider the difference in expression between languages. For example, the active/passive voice may change in Japanese-English translation. The same verb in Japanese may be translated into different voices at each translation because the voice of a generated sentence cannot be determined using only the information of the Japanese sentence. Machine translation syst...

Reordering is a major challenge for machine translation between distant languages. Recent work has shown that evaluation metrics that explicitly account for target language word order correlate better with human judgments of translation quality. Here we present a simple framework for evaluating word order independently of lexical choice by comparing the system’s reordering of a source sentence ...

Confidence measures for machine translation is a method for labeling each word in an automatically generated translation as correct or incorrect. In this paper, we will present a new approach to confidence estimation which has the advantage that it does not rely on system output such as N best lists or word graphs as many other confidence measures do. It is, thus, applicable to any kind of mach...