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Table 2 Evaluation of translation of English into Japanese, and Korean into Japanese

From: Preliminary study of online machine translation use of nursing literature: quality evaluation and perceived usability

 

English into Japanese

Korean into Japanese

t

P

Intelligibility Mean (SD)

n* = 169

n* = 174

8.046

<0.001

2.46 (0.99)

3.38 (1.14)

Usability Mean (SD)

n** = 27

n** = 27

3.189

0.002

2.59 (1.19)

3.59 (1.12)

  1. n* the total number of unit sections for translation evaluation, according to structured abstracts, e.g., “Title” “Aim” “Background” “Method” “Results” “Discussion” and
  2. “Conclusions”.
  3. n** the total number of whole abstracts evaluated for usability of the translation.