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Takakusagi Y, Oike T, Shirai K, Sato H, Kano K, Shima S, Tsuchida K, Mizoguchi N, Serizawa I, Yoshida D, Kamada T, Katoh H. Validation of the Reliability of Machine Translation for a Medical Article From Japanese to English Using DeepL Translator. Cureus 2021. [PMID: 34659989 PMCID: PMC8494522 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.17778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The reliability of DeepL Translator (DeepL GmbH, Cologne, Germany) for the translation for medical articles has not been verified yet. In this study, we investigated the accuracy of machine translation from Japanese to English for a medical article using the DeepL Translator. Methodology The subject of this study was an English-language medical article translated from Japanese, which had already been published. The original Japanese manuscript was translated into English using DeepL Translator. The translated English article was then back-translated into Japanese by three researchers. In turn, three other researchers compared the back-translated Japanese sentences with the original Japanese manuscript and calculated the percentage of sentences that retained the intended meaning. Results The mean ± standard deviation of the match rate for the entire article was 94.0 ± 2.9%. The match rate in the Results section was significantly higher than that in the other sections; while the match rate in the Materials and Methods section was significantly lower than the rate in the other sections. Compound sentences and sentences with an unclear subject and predicate appeared to be significant predictors for mismatched translation. Conclusions The translation for a medical article from Japanese to English was performed accurately by DeepL Translator.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yosuke Takakusagi
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, JPN
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, JPN
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- Department of Radiology, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Omiya, JPN
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, JPN
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, JPN
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, JPN
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, JPN
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, JPN
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, JPN
| | - Tadashi Kamada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, JPN
| | - Hiroyuki Katoh
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, JPN
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