ELECTRONIC DATABASE OF MEDICAL DOCUMENTS IN RUSSIAN, ENGLISH, KAZAKH AND ALTAI LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article describes the principles of operation of the electronic multi-lingual database of medical documents developed by Altai State University’s scientists and provides grounds for standardization of document translation in general. The developed document database is a web application containing Russian template medical documents and their translations into English, Kazakh and Altai languages. However, the base envisages further development by adding new document types and languages. The article explains reasons for creating a pilot base project containing document texts in the mentioned 4 languages, deals with the principles of translation of document texts into genetically unrelated and structurally different languages, discusses issues of standardization of the documentation translation process. The main techniques of document translation include the use of functional substitution in rendering the stylistic components of the document text and the use of rules of translation for “realia” (names of unique objects) for covering legal requisites of a document in a different language.