Multiple-Language Translation System Focusing on Long-Distance Medical and Outpatient Services

For people living in the countryside, an effective long-distance medical and health service is very important. People living in western China, especially, require convenient communication in their native language with doctors working in a modern city. To address this problem, we developed a multiple-language translation system for long-distance medical and outpatient services. This system initially provides a table containing basic information including disease names and symptoms for different medical classifications, and then translates the sentences selected from the table automatically using a machine translation system. Finally, a PDF file is created for the doctor and the patient. In this paper, we discuss the system construction and evaluate the performance of the machine translation.