Comparing Large Language Models and Traditional Machine Translation Tools for Translating Medical Consultation Summaries: Quantitative Pilot #feasibility Study Background: Translation of medical consultation summaries is essential for equitable health care communication in culturally and linguistically diverse populations. While machine translation (MT) tools and large language models (LLMs) are widely accessible, their #feasibility and safety for health care contexts remain underexplored. Objective: This pilot study investigates the #feasibility and limitations of using LLMs and traditional MT tools to translate medical consultation summaries from English into the most common languages other than English spoken in Australia—Arabic, Chinese (simplified written form), and Vietnamese. Methods: Two simulated summaries—a simple patient-facing summary and a complex clinician-oriented interprofessional letter—were translated using 3 LLMs (GPT-4o, Llama-3.1, and Gemma-2) and 3 MT tools (Google Translate, Microsoft Bing Translator, and DeepL). Translations were benchmarked against professional third-party interpreter translations using Bilingual Evaluation Understudy, Character-level F-score, and Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit Ordering metrics. Results: The translation performance varied across languages, tools, and summary complexity when assessed using automatic evaluation metrics. Traditional MT tools outperformed LLMs on surface-level metrics, while LLMs showed relative strengths in semantic similarity for Vietnamese and Chinese. Arabic translations improved with complex input, suggesting morphological advantages. The metric-based evaluation highlighted #feasibility but also risks, particularly in Chinese clinical contexts. Conclusions: This pilot study provides formative evidence of opportunities and limitations in applying artificial intelligence (#AI) translation for health care communication. Findings underscore the importance of human oversight; domain-specific evaluation metrics; and further formative and clinical research to guide the safe, equitable use of artificial intelligence (#AI) translation tools.

JMIR Formative Res: Comparing Large Language Models and Traditional Machine Translation Tools for Translating Medical Consultation Summaries: Quantitative Pilot #feasibility Study #MedicalTranslation #HealthCare #MachineTranslation #LanguageModels #LLMs

📢 Interested in an #MSCA #Postdoctoral #Fellowship?
It offers researchers a chance to advance their careers through international collab & research.

Dr Vicent Briva-Iglesias, DCU, looks for projects in the areas of Human-centred, augmented #machinetranslation:

www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/msca...

This was a bit out of my usual #MachineTranslation comfort zone, but it was great to get to know the field of #CriticalLanguageAwareness and meet so many fascinating people. Thanks to the CLADES organisers for the invitation! 🤩 If you too want to fight #bias in MT, check out biasshield.org 🛡️

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia Ban includes two exceptions: AI can still be used for translations, and to make minor copy edits

“Caution: LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”
“The latest models are still nowhere near good."
~Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia

#AIhallucination
#AIconfabulation
#machinetranslation
#machinelearning

No surprise extensions, no hidden bonus rounds, no secret “just kidding” emails, today (March 27, EOD CEST) is the actual final deadline for the EAMT 2026 main conference papers/tutorials.
#GITT2026 #TAITT2026 #StyGenAI2026 #EAMT2026 #EAMT #MachineTranslation @tilburguniversity.bsky.social

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🚨 FINAL HOURS! 🚨
The #EAMT2026 submission portal closes IN TWO DAYS, March 25, 23:59 CEST.
May your LaTeX compile on the first try, and your references be perfectly formatted. Good luck! 🍀

🔗 Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc...

#NLP #MachineTranslation #DeadlineDay

March with Heinrich Von Kleist by Heissenbuttel - sz-duras.medium.com/march-with-heinrich-von-... #machinetranslation #translation

Ever wondered what a horny Margaret Thatcher would sound like? Kagi Translate AI uses LLM power to spin wild prompts into surprisingly fluent translations—outpacing Google Translate and DeepL. Check out the demo and the tech behind it! #KagiTranslate #GenerativeAI #MachineTranslation

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Ich hasse maschinell übersetzte Supportwebseiten großer Unternehmen! Wie sollen deutschsprachige Kund_innen von Osprey bei der Wahrnehmung von deren “all mighty guarantee” denn herausbekommen, dass mit “Ausstellungsort” eigentlich “Problemstelle am Produkt” und mit "Name des Pakets” eigentlich […]

This problem occurs in languages other than Japanese. It arises when AI systems based on English processing structures handle non-English language structures. Meaning shifts in machine translation have been observed in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and Hindi as well. #AIAlignment #LLM #MachineTranslation

In English, you have 8 different words for writing operations: Polish, Refine, Edit, Revise, Rewrite, Rephrase, Reword, Paraphrase. In Japanese? Just one: 書いて (write). All 8 meanings compressed into 3 characters. This is why AI destroys Japanese output. #NLP #Linguistics #MachineTranslation

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A truly European software forge would fully respect the diversity of natural languages. In addition to having a fully localized user interface, it would support automatically translating all user-generated texts, so that people could work in their native or preferred language instead of having […]

Keynote Speakers - EAMT 2026 EAMT 2026 - European Association for Machine Translation Conference in Tilburg, Netherlands

LLMs are not a magic wand for low-resource languages🪄
At #EAMT2026, Keynote Speaker @rachelbawden.bsky.social will discuss why, and how to fix it.
Don't miss this deep dive into the limits and potential of MT.
👉https://eamt2026.org/keynote-speakers
#NLP #MachineTranslation #LowResource #Science

The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2025 EAMT Best Thesis – European Association for Machine Translation

🚨 Last Call for PhDs!

Defended your thesis on MT in 2025? The deadline for the Anthony C. Clarke Award is THIS FRIDAY, 30 Jan 2026.
🏆 Win €500 + Present at #EAMT2026.

If you know a brilliant recent grad, let them know! 👇
🔗 More info here: eamt.org/2025/11/25/t...

#PhD #NLP #MachineTranslation

Google vs. OpenAI: Der Kampf um die perfekte Übersetzung wird lokal

Google vs. OpenAI: Der Kampf um die perfekte Übersetzung wird lokal

techupdate.io/google/google-vs-openai-...

#ki #technews #google #opensource #translategemma #machinetranslation

Artificial Intelligence – are we all doomed? In this post, I reflect on the rapid evolution of AI and its impact on various industries, particularly translation, writing, and creative professions. While acknowledging advancements in machine t…

Artificial Intelligence - are we all doomed?

#ai #artificialintelligence #airobot #chatgpt #futureofai #theterminator #machinetranslation #translation #dystopia

AI Killed My Job: Translators - by Brian Merchant #work #employment #artificialintelligence #translators #machinetranslation

DECIPHER Novel and low-frequency terms (e.g., newly coined slang, jargon, coded language and undefined acronyms) present a persistent challenge for the analysis of multilingual text and speech by analysts and ...

Exhibit B (with potential funding!):

www.iarpa.gov/research-pro...

(And for me, also potential nostalgia for my OOV-chasing days in #MachineTranslation )

Alorica Unveils Advanced Conversational AI evoAI™  This award-winning technology propels the customer journey, seamlessly integrating AI + human expertise to deliver quantifiable business transformation results IRVINE, Calif., April 10, 202...

Thanks Alorica for the #evoAI and #ReVoLT demos for real time dynamic AI training simulations with custom personas and scenarios, customer-facing natural language #ConversationalAI, and real time voice #machinetranslation.

@nhinsight.bsky.social

www.alorica.com/news/detail/...

Kas ir tulkošanas aplikācijas un vai uz tām var paļauties, kad vajag kvalitatīvus tulkojumus? » Baltic Media® 2025 Tulkošanas aplikācijas un to veikto tulkojumu rediģēšana un korektūra ar Baltic Media® – kvalitatīvi, precīzi un stilistiski pielāgoti tulkojumi vairāk nekā 70 valodās.

Kas ir tulkošanas aplikācijas un vai uz tām var paļauties, kad vajag kvalitatīvus tulkojumus? #Tulkojumi #MachineTranslation #PostEditing #BalticMedia #Korektūra #Localizationwww.balticmedia.com/lv/kas-ir-tulkosanas-apl...

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@quippd/115624368021083644

#youshouldknow that #Mozilla is going all in on #AI -- on their support pages, they are removing human localized contributed articles in favor of a #machinetranslation bot.

If you care about #community in #tech and #opensource please share […]

🚀Our latest paper: "Missing the human touch? A computational stylometric analysis of GPT4 translations of online Chinese literature”
GPT4 vs human translators in literary style.
Can you still tell?
Link: researchgate.net/publication/...

#MachineTranslation #GPT #Stylometry #WebNovels #AI

Physical Asia reaction video with English subtitles that were clearly generated by Google Translate. Subtitle says, "No, I don't want to go. I told them to keep their dicks low, but" instead of "No, I told you to crouch down, but..."

That's not what she said. 🤣 #PhysicalAsia #YouTube #machinetranslation

Findings of the WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task: Time to Stop Evaluating on Easy Test Sets - ACL Anthology #machinetranslation

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One of the few areas where LLMs are actually useful is in #machinetranslation . But machine #translation is STILL and will - for the time being - always be inferior to human translators.

We have several areas of our app and documentation where there exists the concept of _shifting_ or adjusting […]

Kindle Translate: AI-powered service for multilingual eBooks #machinetranslation #amazon #literature

Post-Editing: Why Baltic Media Is Your Best Choice for High-Quality Machine Translation » Baltic Media® 2025 Combine AI speed with human expertise. Baltic Media offers ISO-certified post-editing for accurate, natural, and affordable translations.

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How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

Greenlandic, a language spoken by only 57,000 people in Greenland, serves as an example of how a language with few speakers can send AI into a doom spiral.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #mt #machinetranslation

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#machinetranslation