A Hierarchical Model for Object-Oriented Design Quality Assessment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Surveying the factors that influence maintainability: research design
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Customizing ISO 9126 quality model for evaluation of B2B applications
Information and Software Technology
A bidirectional grammar-based medical speech translator
SLP '07 Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar-Based Approaches to Spoken Language Processing
Language engineering and the pathway to healthcare: a user-oriented view
MST '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Medical Speech Translation
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Computer Speech and Language
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Medical translation systems present an intriguing research area as language barriers can become life-threatening when health issues come into place. There is however a lack of common evaluation methodologies, making the fair comparison of such systems a difficult task. In this work the authors try to remedy this deficiency by proposing a quality model based on the ISO/IEC 9126 standard that could serve as a comparison basis among homologous systems. Their work involves the definition of the internal and external quality characteristics of the model along with the quantification of their relative importance based on the results of polling two groups of users 12 doctors and 12 potential patients that demonstrate different needs and goals towards the system. Additionally, for the internal characteristics that reflect mainly a technical viewpoint the authors polled 6 developers. Finally, as the model contains attributes that are measurable the authors proposed metrics for each characteristic.