A comparison of human and machine translation of health promotion materials for public health practice: time, costs, and quality.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Most local public health departments serve limited English proficiency groups but lack sufficient resources to translate the health promotion materials that they produce into different languages. Machine translation (MT) with human postediting could fill this gap and work toward decreasing health disparities among non-English speakers.

Objectives

(1) To identify the time and costs associated with human translation (HT) of public health documents, (2) determine the time necessary for human postediting of MT, and (3) compare the quality of postedited MT and HT.

Design

A quality comparison of 25 MT and HT documents was performed with public health translators. The public health professionals involved were queried about the workflow, costs, and time for HT of 11 E

SUBMITTER: Turner AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5606325 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature