This paper describes LDC's efforts in collecting, creating and processing different types of linguistic data, including lexicons, parallel text, multiple translation corpora, and human assessment of translation quality, to support the research and development in Machine Translation. Through a combination of different procedures and core technologies, the LDC was able to create very large, high ...

Introduction Conducting a training activity usually involves assessing to students the knowledge and/or the skills acquired. Assessment methods must be objectives and representatives of the item being evaluated and able to ensure their independence from the evaluator. The assessment of practical skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) acquired by a student during a training course conform...

As an essential part of the application field translation, translation quality assessment （TQA） is greatly useful in standardizing market, improving quality, and promoting teaching. This paper explores different kinds TQA models chronologically from qualitative quantitative perspectives, respectively, points out some problems current studies on China. The author, based new trends theory applica...

Machine Translation (MT) has made a comeback during the 1990s. Though systems, as to their Iinguistic performance, are much what they were 10 years earlier, there have been significant changes on the technical level. Systems that were once costly and running on mainframes and expensive workstations only are now licensed for rather modest sums to run on personal computers. The comeback of MT has...

AIM This study investigates whether machine translation could help with the challenge of enabling the inclusion of ethnic diversity in healthcare research. DESIGN A two phase, prospective observational study. METHODS Two machine translators, Google Translate and Babylon 9, were tested. Translation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) from 24 languages into English and trans...

the present study assessed the construct validity and reliability of a researcher-constructed psycho-motor mechanism scale based on the communicative theory of translation proposed by pacte (2003). in doing so, the necessary criteria for designing the scale were obtained by a thorough review of related literature on previously constructed scales in error analysis or holistic ones. moreover, in ...