Forecasting Erroneous Neural Machine Translation of Disease Symptoms: Development of Bayesian Probabilistic Classifiers for Cross-Lingual Health Translation.

Journal: International journal of environmental research and public health
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Machine translation (MT) technologies have increasing applications in healthcare. Despite their convenience, cost-effectiveness, and constantly improved accuracy, research shows that the use of MT tools in medical or healthcare settings poses risks to vulnerable populations.

Authors

  • Meng Ji
    Department of Strategic Development, Harbin Bank, Harbin, China.
  • Wenxiu Xie
    Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong 518057, China.
  • Riliu Huang
    School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia.
  • Xiaobo Qian
    School of Computer Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.