Translation Technology in Accessible Health Communication

Meng Ji is an Associate Professor of Translation Studies at The University of Sydney, where she specializes in empirical translation studies and multilingual communications. She received the first PhD in Translation Studies from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and has worked in London and Tokyo with competitive research fellowships from national research councils in the UK and Japan. The author and editor of more than two dozen books, Dr. Ji has published extensively on environmental and health translation, empirical multilingual translation methodologies, people-centered translation quality assessment, and inclusive translation services and technologies. Pierrette Bouillon is a Professor and Dean at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author of numerous publications in natural language processing, particularly within speech-to-speech machine translation for medical domain and pre- and post-editing, and more recently accessibility. She currently co-leads the Swiss Research Centre Barrier-Free Communication with Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and is the lead investigator of multiple projects of translation studies from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. Mark Seligman is the founder and President of Spoken Translation, Inc. and the Chief Linguist of Speech Morphing, Inc. Since the 1990s, he has led the design, testing and implementation of multiple speech translation systems for English, Spanish, Japanese, French, and German, with research associations in the USA, Japan, and Europe, and has contributed to artificial intelligence research and development since the 1980s. He received his PhD in Computational Linguistics from University of California, Berkeley in 1991.

• Introduction Meng Ji, Pierrette Bouillon and Mark Seligman; 1. Speech and translation technologies: explanations Mark Seligman; 2. Speech and translation technologies: healthcare applications Mark Seligman; 3. Predicting errors in Google translations of health information on infectious diseases Meng Ji; 4. Cultural and linguistic bias of neural machine translation technology Meng Ji; 5. Enhancing speech translation in medical emergencies with pictographs: BabelDr Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach, Magali Norré and Hervé Spechbach; 6. Improving healthcare accessibility for the deaf: the sign language version of BabelDr Irene Strasly, Pierrette Bouillon, Bastien David and Hervé Spechbach; 7. Health websites for all: improving accessibility in website translation and localisation Lucía Morado Vázquez and Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez.

'This is a ground-breaking, rigorously researched volume that explores the intersection of language and translation technologies in healthcare settings, ultimately calling for more effective communication between providers and patients. Whether you are a healthcare professional, a language service provider, or a patient navigating the healthcare system, this book is an indispensable guide to breaking down barriers and promoting technological, linguistic and cultural competence in healthcare.' Jorge Díaz-Cintas, University College London