A multilingual chat system with image presentation for detecting mistranslation

Author

Hosogai, Eri ; Mukai, Tsubasa ; Jung, Sinyu ; Kowase, Yasufumi ; Bossard, Antoine ; Xu, Yong ; Ishikawa, Masatoshi ; Kaneko, Keiichi

Author_Institution

Dept. Comput. & Inf. Sci., Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

27-30 June 2011

Firstpage

287

Lastpage

292

Abstract

We have designed and developed a multilingual chat system, MCHI (Multilingual Chat with Hint Images), which is based on machine translation and equipped with a presentation function of images related to the contents of the messages by utterers so that listeners are able to notice the mistranslation. MCHI accepts English, French, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. It uses Google API to retrieve related images from the image posting site Flickr. As a result of evaluation experiment, we have observed that participants detected the mismatch of a translated message with its related image. According to the answers of participants for a question in a questionnaire, it turned out that the usability of the MCHI system is good enough though the related images are not satisfactory.

Keywords

application program interfaces; image retrieval; language translation; natural languages; Chinese language; English language; Flickr; French language; Google API; Japanese language; Korean language; MCHI; image presentation; machine translation; mistranslation detection; multilingual chat with hint images; Agriculture; Collaborative work; Google; Image retrieval; Servers; Speech; Time factors; image retrieval; keywords; machine translation; morphological analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), Proceedings of the ITI 2011 33rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubrovnik

ISSN

1330-1012

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-897-6

Electronic_ISBN

1330-1012

Type

conf

Filename

5974037