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The Social Model of Translation and Its Application to Internet Search Engines Specialized in Health: The ASEM Search Engine for Neuromuscular Diseases
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Abstract The use of the Internet as a source of health information is greatly increasing. However, identifying relevant and valid information can be problematic. This paper firstly analyses the efficiency of Internet search engines specialized in health in order to then determine the quality of the online in... view more
The use of the Internet as a source of health information is greatly increasing. However, identifying relevant and valid information can be problematic. This paper firstly analyses the efficiency of Internet search engines specialized in health in order to then determine the quality of the online information related to a specific medical subdomain like that of neuromuscular diseases. Our aim is to present a model for the development and use of a bilingual electronic corpus (MYOCOR), related to the said neuromuscular diseases in order to: a) on one hand, provide a quality health information tool for health professionals, patients and relatives, as well as for translators and writers of specialized texts, and software developers, and b) on the other hand, use the same as a base for the implementation of a search engine (using keywords and semantics), like the ASEM (Federación Española Contra las Enfermedades Neuromusculares) search engine for neuromuscular diseases.... view less
Keywords
Internet; information service; health; information content; relevance; quality; search engine; multilingualism; translation; medicine
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 374-386
Journal
Meta: Translators' Journal, 55 (2010) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7202/044246ar
ISSN
1492-1421
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications