ICMI '02 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces
A flexible speech to speech phrasebook translator
S2S '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Speech-to-speech translation: algorithms and systems - Volume 7
Transonics: a practical speech-to-speech translator for English-Farsi medical dialogues
ACLdemo '05 Proceedings of the ACL 2005 on Interactive poster and demonstration sessions
Computer-based support for patients with limited English
EAMT '03 Proceedings of the 7th International EAMT workshop on MT and other Language Technology Tools, Improving MT through other Language Technology Tools: Resources and Tools for Building MT
Limited-domain speech-to-speech translation between English and Pashto
HLT-NAACL--Demonstrations '04 Demonstration Papers at HLT-NAACL 2004
A bidirectional grammar-based medical speech translator
SLP '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing
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Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
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Machine Translation
International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare
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This position paper looks critically at a number of aspects of current research into spoken language translation (SLT) in the medical domain. We first discuss the user profile for medical SLT, criticizing designs which assume that the doctor will necessarily need or want to control the technology. If patients are to be users on an equal standing, more attention must be paid to usability issues. We focus briefly on the issue of feedback in SLT systems, pointing out the difficulties of relying on text-based paraphrases. We consider the delicate issue of evaluating medical SLT systems, noting that some of the standard and much-used evaluation techniques for all aspects of the SLT chain might not be suitable for use with real users, even if they are role-playing. Finally, we discuss the idea that the "pathway to healthcare" involves much more than a face-to-face interview with a medical professional, and that different technologies including but not restricted to SLT will be appropriate along this pathway.