Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), Proceedings of the ITI 2011 33rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dubrovnik
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-897-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1330-1012
