Background: As the availability of interoperable electronic health records (iEHRs) or health
information exchanges (HIEs) continues to increase, there is greater need and opportunity to …

Background: In the context of the current refugee crisis, emergency services often have to
deal with patients who have no language in common with the staff. As interpreters are not …

This paper presents a user study carried out at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) where
we compared BabelDr, a flexible phraselator, with Google Translate (GT). French speaking …

This thesis presents research in automatic translation from German to synthesized Swiss
German Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache)(DSGS), the sign …

In emergency and immigrant health service departments, medical professionals frequently
have no language in common with a patient. When no interpreter is available, doctors need …

This article presents a prototype of automatic translation from French into the sign language
of French-speaking Belgium (LSFB). Its main objective is to improve the accessibility of …

À notre époque, une information accessible doit être impérativement proposée aux
minorités qui en font la demande, notamment aux personnes avec un handicap auditif et …

We present a web platform which permits rapid development of limited-domain speech-to-
sign translators; the work leverages a line of research on limited-domain speech …

In health communication, issues that are rooted in cultural norms and values are
controversial and challenging. Researchers on medical communication argue that …

This book contains five recent studies on corpus-based empirical translation studies. The
title was chosen because two of them are concerned with lexis (multiword technical terms …