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Collaborative translation by monolingual users

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CHI EA '09: CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520438

Published: 04 April 2009 Publication History

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This paper describes a research effort to support collaborative translation by monolingual speakers, or people that speak only the source or target language. I hypothesize that sharing knowledge across the language barrier is possible with a combination of automated (but poor quality) machine translation, language-independent communication, and existing background knowledge. I demonstrate this possibility with proof-of-concept experiments.

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Hu CResnik PKronrod YEidelman VBuzek OBederson BCallison-Burch CKoehn PMonz CZaidan O(2011)The value of monolingual crowdsourcing in a real-world translation scenarioProceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation10.5555/2132960.2133014(399-404)Online publication date: 30-Jul-2011
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CHI EA '09: CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2009

2470 pages

ISBN:9781605582474

DOI:10.1145/1520340

General Chair:
Dan R. Olsen
Brigham Young University
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Ken Hinckley
Microsoft Research
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Meredith Ringel Morris
Microsoft Research
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Scott Hudson
Carnegie Mellon University
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Saul Greenberg
University of Calgary

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Shi CLin DIshida TKim JNichols JSzekely P(2013)Agent metaphor for machine translation mediated communicationProceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces10.1145/2449396.2449407(67-74)Online publication date: 19-Mar-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2449396.2449407
Hu CResnik PKronrod YEidelman VBuzek OBederson BCallison-Burch CKoehn PMonz CZaidan O(2011)The value of monolingual crowdsourcing in a real-world translation scenarioProceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation10.5555/2132960.2133014(399-404)Online publication date: 30-Jul-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2132960.2133014
Lin D(2011)Humans in the Loop of Localization ProcessesThe Language Grid10.1007/978-3-642-21178-2_13(201-213)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21178-2_13
Hu CBederson BResnik PMould DNoël S(2010)Translation by iterative collaboration between monolingual usersProceedings of Graphics Interface 201010.5555/1839214.1839223(39-46)Online publication date: 31-May-2010
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