title: PHAST: A Collaborative Machine Translation and Post-Editing Tool for Public Health.
abstract: This paper describes a novel collaborative machine translation (MT) plus post-editing system called PHAST (Public Health Automatic System for Translation, phastsystem.org), tailored for use in producing multilingual education materials for public health. Its collaborative features highlight a new approach in public health informatics: sharing limited bilingual translation resources via a groupware system. We report here on the design methods and requirements used to develop PHAST and on its evaluation with potential public health users. Our results indicate such a system could be a feasible means of increasing the production of multilingual public health materials by reducing the barriers of time and cost. PHAST's design can serve as a model for other communities interested in assuring the accuracy of MT through shared language expertise.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dew
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Loma
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laurenzi
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kirchhoff
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation; D003201:Computers; D006801:Humans; D040442:Public Health Informatics; D012984:Software; D014175:Translating