Artificial intelligence-grounded machine translation has fundamentally changed public awareness and attitudes towards multilingual communication. In some language pairs, the accuracy, quality and efficiency of machine-translated texts of certain types can be quite high. Hence, the end-user acceptability and reliance on machine-translated content could be justified. However, machine translation in small and/or low-resource languages might yield significantly lower quality, which in turn may lead to potentially negative consequences and risks if machine translation is used in high-risk contexts without awareness of the drawbacks, critical assessment and modifications to the raw output. The current study, which is part of a more extensive project focusing on the societal impact of machine translation, is aimed at revealing the attitudes towards usability and quality as perceived from the end-user perspective. The research questions addressed revolve around the machine translation types used, purposes of using machine translation, perceived quality of the generated output, and actions taken to improve the quality by users with various backgrounds. The research findings rely on a survey of the population (N = 402) conducted in 2021 in Lithuania. The study reveals the frequent use of machine translation for a diversity of purposes. The most common uses include work, research and studies, and household environments. A higher level of education correlates with user dissatisfaction with the generated quality and actions taken to improve it. The findings also reveal that age correlates with the use of machine translation. Sustainable measures to reduce machine translation related risks have to be established based on the perceptions of different social groups in different societies and cultures.

Despite fast development of machine translation, the output quality is less than acceptable in certain language pairs. The aim of this paper is to determine the types of errors in machine translation output that cause comprehension problems to potential readers. The study is based on a reading task experiment using eye tracking and a retrospective survey as a complementary method to add more value to the research as eye tracking as a method is considered to be problematic and challenging (O’BRIEN, 2009; ALVES et al., 2009). The cognitive evaluation approach is used in an eye tracking experiment to determine the complexity of the errors in the English–Lithuanian language pair from easiest to hardest as seen by the readers of a machine-translated text. The tested parameters – gaze time and fixation count – demonstrate that a different amount of cognitive effort is required to process different types of errors in machine-translated texts. The current work aims at contributing to other research in the Translation Studies field by providing the analysis of error assessment of machine translation output.

Analysis of publications related to category of smart cities as smart social system shows differences between all characteristics describing the smart city and especially the contribution of digital dimension to the general concept of smart city. Differences and similarities of opinions of different authors about the digital dimension have been noted. The practical analysis has been prepared using EUROSTAT, the open databases published by international projects and Lithuanian committee for development of information society. A methodic that uses statistical comparison of places of states and cities in lists ranked by various indicators of smartness has been tried out. The paper compares three cities (of a similar size) of Baltic countries (Kaunas, Liepaja and Tartu) from the point of view of digital dimension. The investigation has shown that their positions in the abovementioned lists correspond to the positions of the states. Further research is required to find out to what extent that is true for other cities. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.13.3.8295

The analysis of results of the exam session of students studying Business Administration in Kaunas University of Technology did show relatively low marks in accounting related modules. Thus, more attention should be given to use of accounting information systems. The analyses results of exams show difficulties integrated systemically understanding accounting, accounting information systems and relation with business basics. The main purpose of the paper is to create the tool for teaching integrated business information systems also improving teaching and learning of accounting information systems. A survey of the students has been performed, asking what improvements of business game (including further integration with other tools) they would consider useful. Integrated use of a system of tools (including business game, database management system, accounting information system and Geographical Information Systems) was proposed and tried out in the study process.

Data analysis traditionally belong to scientist's field of interest. Usually scientists gatherer and analyze their own data. Challenges of 21st century require more global point view in decision making process from each worker in local workplace. Local public health sector is strongly related with global world. So, right managerial decision-making in local workplaces depends on changes in global environment. The speed of changes is very high. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage workers of public health sector to make daily managerial decisions evaluating both global and local data. Information technologies (IT) supports decision making process. It is easier to analyze homogeneous data. Analysis of global data has shown that data formats were often incompatible. Limited IT competencies of public health workers make analysis of data from different sources difficult. This article describes a method for integration of global heterogeneous data in local databases.

Integracijos ir globalizacijos procesai didina įmonių poreikį būti konkurencingesnėmis. Dirbant šiuolaikinėje organizacijoje nepakanka išmanyti siauras savo darbo operacijas, nes visos organizacijos efektyvumas bus didesnis, jei kiekvienas jos narys gerai suvoks visuminius verslo procesus ir juos įvertins priimdamas lokalios darbo vietos vadybinius sprendimus. Tokiu būdu kiekvienoje darbo vietoje priimti racionalesni sprendimai duos sinerginį efektą visai organizacijai. Visuminių ekonominiųprocesų supratimui palengvinti galėtų būti pravartūs verslo imitaciniai modeliai. Darbo tikslas – sukurti tokią internetinę priemonę, kuri imituotų verslo procesus ir padėtų studentui suprasti tų procesų tarpusavio priklausomybę. Nagrinėjamas autorių sukurtas internetinis verslo procesų imitavimo žaidimas „Kietas Riešutas“, lyginama su anksčiau sukurta ir ilgą laiką eksploatuota stacionaria šio žaidimo versija. Diegiant ir eksploatuojant kompiuterines priemones į mokymo procesą, svarbi studentųnuomonė, todėl straipsnyje pateikta klausytojų apklausos statistinė duomenų analizė ir pasiūlytos rekomendacijos diegiant ir vartojant verslo procesų imitavimą.Web based simulation of business processesEugenijus Bagdonas, Irena Patašienė, Martynas Patašius, Vytautas Skvernys SummaryThe processes of integration and globalisation increase the necessity to improve competitiveness of the enterprises. In modern organisation the knowledge of narrow sphere of operations of own work is not enough, as effectiveness of the whole organisation will improve if each of the workers will understand all the main business processes and take account of them in the local decisions. In such case the improved decisions in all the workplaces will give synergetic effect to the entire organisation. Business simulations can be used to ease the understanding of main economical processes. The goal of this work is to create a Web-based tool that would simulate the business processes and help the student to understand the interdependencies of these processes. The article describes Web-based business game “Hard Nut” (“Kietas riešutas”) made by the authors and compares it with the previous standalone version. As the opinion of the students is importantin deploying and using such software in the studies, the article also gives the statistical analysis of survey of the users.