@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10066,
	  title     = {Providing Medical Information in Braille: Research and Development of Automatic Braille Translation Program for Japanese “eBraille“},
	  author    = {Aki Sugano and  Mika Ohta and  Mineko Ikegami and  Kenji Miura and  Sayo Tsukamoto and  Akihiro Ichinose and  Toshiko Ohshima and  Eiichi Maeda and  Masako Matsuura and Yutaka Takao},
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	  abstract     = {Along with the advances in medicine, providing medical information to individual patient is becoming more important. In Japan such information via Braille is hardly provided to blind and partially sighted people. Thus we are researching and developing a Web-based automatic translation program “eBraille" to translate Japanese text into Japanese Braille. First we analyzed the Japanese transcription rules to implement them on our program. We then added medical words to the dictionary of the program to improve its translation accuracy for medical text. Finally we examined the efficacy of statistical learning models (SLMs) for further increase of word segmentation accuracy in braille translation. As a result, eBraille had the highest translation accuracy in the comparison with other translation programs, improved the accuracy for medical text and is utilized to make hospital brochures in braille for outpatients and inpatients.
},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences},
	  volume    = {5},
	  number    = {10},
	  year      = {2011},
	  pages     = {496 - 500},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10066},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/58},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 58, 2011},
	}