Rapid Development of Competitive Translation Engines for Access to Multilingual COVID-19 Information
Every day, more people are becoming infected and dying from exposure to COVID-19. Some countries in Europe like Spain, France, the UK and Italy have suffered particularly badly from the virus. Others such as Germany appear to have coped extremely well. Both health professionals and the general publi...
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| author | Andy Way Rejwanul Haque Guodong Xie Federico Gaspari Maja Popović Alberto Poncelas |
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| description | Every day, more people are becoming infected and dying from exposure to COVID-19. Some countries in Europe like Spain, France, the UK and Italy have suffered particularly badly from the virus. Others such as Germany appear to have coped extremely well. Both health professionals and the general public are keen to receive up-to-date information on the effects of the virus, as well as treatments that have proven to be effective. In cases where language is a barrier to access of pertinent information, machine translation (MT) may help people assimilate information published in different languages. Our MT systems trained on COVID-19 data are freely available for anyone to use to help translate information (such as promoting good practice for symptom identification, prevention, and treatment) published in German, French, Italian, Spanish into English, as well as the reverse direction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b5e0b6b2e174698844011aa129195382023-11-20T04:09:53ZengMDPI AGInformatics2227-97092020-06-01721910.3390/informatics7020019Rapid Development of Competitive Translation Engines for Access to Multilingual COVID-19 InformationAndy Way0Rejwanul Haque1Guodong Xie2Federico Gaspari3Maja Popović4Alberto Poncelas5ADAPT Centre, School of Computing, D09 Y074 Dublin, IrelandADAPT Centre, School of Computing, D09 Y074 Dublin, IrelandADAPT Centre, School of Computing, D09 Y074 Dublin, IrelandADAPT Centre, School of Computing, D09 Y074 Dublin, IrelandADAPT Centre, School of Computing, D09 Y074 Dublin, IrelandADAPT Centre, School of Computing, D09 Y074 Dublin, IrelandEvery day, more people are becoming infected and dying from exposure to COVID-19. Some countries in Europe like Spain, France, the UK and Italy have suffered particularly badly from the virus. Others such as Germany appear to have coped extremely well. Both health professionals and the general public are keen to receive up-to-date information on the effects of the virus, as well as treatments that have proven to be effective. In cases where language is a barrier to access of pertinent information, machine translation (MT) may help people assimilate information published in different languages. Our MT systems trained on COVID-19 data are freely available for anyone to use to help translate information (such as promoting good practice for symptom identification, prevention, and treatment) published in German, French, Italian, Spanish into English, as well as the reverse direction.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9709/7/2/19machine translationCOVID-19crisis translationneural MTautomatic evaluationhuman evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Andy Way Rejwanul Haque Guodong Xie Federico Gaspari Maja Popović Alberto Poncelas Rapid Development of Competitive Translation Engines for Access to Multilingual COVID-19 Information Informatics machine translation COVID-19 crisis translation neural MT automatic evaluation human evaluation |
| title | Rapid Development of Competitive Translation Engines for Access to Multilingual COVID-19 Information |
| title_full | Rapid Development of Competitive Translation Engines for Access to Multilingual COVID-19 Information |
| title_fullStr | Rapid Development of Competitive Translation Engines for Access to Multilingual COVID-19 Information |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rapid Development of Competitive Translation Engines for Access to Multilingual COVID-19 Information |
| title_short | Rapid Development of Competitive Translation Engines for Access to Multilingual COVID-19 Information |
| title_sort | rapid development of competitive translation engines for access to multilingual covid 19 information |
| topic | machine translation COVID-19 crisis translation neural MT automatic evaluation human evaluation |
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