Lowering the burden of medical translation by enabling international healthcare professionals as human editors of machine translations
Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- R44MD018266
- Recipient
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Transcendent International LLC UEI V5UPVWD193C7
- Awarding agency
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National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Obligated
- $7,435,864
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research
- Completion date
- Originally
- Funding agency
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Place of performance
- New York, NY 10174, USA
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Description
- Abstract
- Language access solutions in healthcare have focused almost exclusively on the provision of verbal medical interpretation, despite federal and state laws that mandate translation of written information for patients with limited english proficiency (LEP). In recent years, machine translation (MT) has made significant strides, but when IT comes to mission-critical technical materials such as healthcare information, the accuracy rate of machine-only translations plummets. Thus, experts recommend MT as a starting point for translating health-related material then supplementing with human quality assurance editing. However, coordinating machine translation with bilingual human editors who have technical medical knowledge is a challenge, especially for less commonly supported languages. Translation vendors currently pass on the associated costs of human assistance to healthcare institutions. The canopy translate project will address these deficits by implementing a novel, human-assisted machine translation (hamt) process. The envisioned workflow management platform will leverage MT engines to expedite the initial rendering of source documents into a target language, then invite bilingual healthcare professionals around the world to apply human editing to the machine-generated translation. The bilingual contributors, who will gain complimentary access to our medical english elearning courses as an incentive for their participation, will complete the editing task through gamified learning exercises. For example, a nurse in the philippines has native fluency in tagalog and advanced general english but desires to improve his medical english. He can edit a machine-generated tagalog translation one sentence at a time in the form of a gamified activity. Other contributors will edit the same text for additional quality assurance to form the final, polished version in tagalog. The system will then organize the final translated content into a reusable document library. In phase i, we will test the feasibility of this hybrid hamt approach for medical content. Upon meeting feasibility benchmarks, we will advance to phase II, during which we will create a minimum viable product, encompassing several novel natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, and evaluate the translation output according to a set of quality benchmarks. If successful, this project will significantly improve the availability, speed, and cost-effectiveness of producing multilingual health content, with potential to reduce health disparities in LEP populations.
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Who received award R44MD018266?
R44MD018266 was awarded to Transcendent International LLC by National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health) on September 26, 2022.
How much is award R44MD018266 worth?
$7,435,864 has been obligated on R44MD018266.
Which agency awarded R44MD018266?
National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health) awarded R44MD018266, with funding from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (National Institutes of Health).
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