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Use of Google Translate in medical communication: evaluation of accuracy
Saturday, December 27, 2014
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Source Name: British Medical Journal
Source URL: http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7392.long
The authors translated 10 common medical phrases into 26 foreign languages and had native speakers of those languages translate those phrases back to English. 42% of the translations were wrong, with the worst accuracy among African and Asian languages.
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