Automatic language translation for user interfaces

Author

Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel A. ; Padilla-Falto, Olga I. ; McDevitt, Kathleen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Tech, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

63

Abstract

Translations of user interfaces are an essential part of software development for the World Wide Web. Web pages are translated in three ways: by the developer as part of the normal life cycle, by the community that has a vested interest in the domain, and by machine translation. In this paper, we present an informal evaluation of the quality produced by these three approaches. We discuss the naive notion that language translations can be evaluated by doing to successive translations and evaluating the end result. The rubric used to evaluate the translations is presented.

Keywords

language translation; natural language interfaces; World Wide Web; informal evaluation; international interfaces; language translation; machine translation; software development; user interface; Cellular phones; Computer science; Cultural differences; Internet; Natural languages; Programming; Usability; User interfaces; Web pages; Web sites; Design; Human Factors; International Interfaces; Internationalization; Localization; Management; Standardization; Translation; User Interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Diversity in Computing Conference, 2005 Richard Tapia Celebration of

Print_ISBN

1-59593-257-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTCDC.2005.201648

Filename

1570880