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| Title | Composing Human and Machine Translation Services: Language Grid for Improving Localization Processes |
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| Authors | Donghui Lin, Yoshiaki Murakami, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami and Masahiro Tanaka |
| Abstract | With the development of the Internet environments, more and more languageservices become accessible for common people. However, the gap between humantranslators and machine translators remains huge especially for the domain oflocalization processes that requires high translation quality. Although effortsof combining human and machine translators for supporting multilingualcommunication have been reported in previous research, how to apply suchapproaches for improving localization processes are rarely discussed. In thispaper, we aim at improving localization processes by composing human andmachine translation services based on the Language Grid, which is a languageservice platform that we have developed. Further, we conduct experiments tocompare the translation quality and translation cost using several translationprocesses, including absolute machine translation processes, absolute humantranslation processes and translation processes by human and machinetranslation services. The experiment results show that composing monolingualroles and dictionary services improves the translation quality of machinetranslators, and that collaboration of human and machine translators ispossible to reduce the cost comparing with the absolute bilingual humantranslation. We also discuss the generality of the experimental results andfurther challenging issues of the proposed localization processes. |
| Language | Tools, systems, applications |
| Topics | Web Services, LR Infrastructures and Architectures, Tools, systems, applications |
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Composing Human and Machine Translation Services: Language Grid for Improving Localization Processes |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{LIN10.317, author = {Donghui Lin, Yoshiaki Murakami, Toru Ishida, Yohei Murakami and Masahiro Tanaka}, title = {Composing Human and Machine Translation Services: Language Grid for Improving Localization Processes}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |