ABSTRACT

Cochrane is a non-profit organization which mainly relies on volunteer health professionals for the production, simplification, evaluation, and multilingual dissemination of high-quality health content. The approach that Cochrane volunteers adopt for the simplification (or intralingual translation) of English health content is non-automated and involves the manual checking and implementation of plain language guidelines. This study investigated whether and to what extent the introduction of a controlled language (CL) checker – which would make the simplification approach semi-automated – increased authors’ satisfaction and machine translation (MT) quality. Twelve Cochrane authors completed a standardized questionnaire and answered follow-up questions on their level of satisfaction and preferences. Forty-one Cochrane evaluators assessed the quality of the Spanish MT outputs of simplified texts. Authors showed a preference for the introduction of a CL checker. Differences in MT quality scores were slight.

摘要

Cochrane是一个非营利组织，主要依靠志愿卫生专业人员来制作，简化，评估和多语种传播高质量的健康内容。Cochrane志愿者采用的简化英语健康内容（或进行语言内翻译）的方法不是自动的，需要人工检查和实施简单的语言准则。这项研究调查了是否引入控制语言（CL）检查器以及在何种程度上使简化方法半自动化，从而提高了作者的满意度和机器翻译（MT）的质量。十二名Cochrane作者完成了一份标准化问卷，并回答了有关其满​​意度和偏好的后续问题。共有41位Cochrane评估人员评估了西班牙MT简化文本输出的质量。作者对引入CL检查器表示偏爱。MT质量得分的差异很小。