Google Translate mostly accurate in test with patient instructions

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Google Translate mostly accurate in test with patient instructions
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In hospitals that serve multicultural areas, doctors are increasingly looking for ways to translate their discharge instructions into languages ...

Share via E-Mail Bookmark - In hospitals that serve multicultural areas, doctors are increasingly looking for ways to translate their discharge instructions into languages they don't speak. A new study finds that Google Translate may be up to the job - with some caveats. Researchers examining 100 sets of emergency room patient discharge instructions converted into Spanish and Chinese from English by Google Translate determined there were very few significant errors.

A small proportion of the mistranslations had the potential to do significant harm to the patient: 15 of the 53 inaccurate Spanish sentences and 50 of the 125 inaccurate Chinese sentences. Some of the errors were correct translations of unclear English instructions, but most mistranslations by the program were due to grammar or typographical errors in the original English text that a human reader would have"overlooked or understood," the researchers note.

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