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Creating a multimodal translation tool and testing machine translation integration using touch and voice

Teixeira, Carlos S. C. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-1453-990X, Moorkens, Joss orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4864-5986, Turner, Daniel, Vreeke, Joris orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3810-7631 and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2019) Creating a multimodal translation tool and testing machine translation integration using touch and voice. Informatics, 6 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2227-9709

Abstract
Commercial software tools for translation have until now been based on the traditional input modes of keyboard and mouse, latterly with a small amount of speech recognition input becoming popular. In order to test whether a greater variety of input modes might aid translation from scratch, translation using translation memories, or machine translation post-editing, we developed a web-based translation editing interface that permits multi-modal input via touch-enabled screens and speech recognition in addition to keyboard and mouse. The tool also conforms to web accessibility standards. This article describes the tool and its development process over several iterations. Between these iterations we carried out two usability studies, also reported here. Findings were promising, albeit somewhat inconclusive. Participants liked the tool and the speech recognition functionality. Reports of the touchscreen were mixed, and we consider that this may take further research to incorporate touch into a translation interface in a usable way.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:computer-aided translation; usability; agile development; multimodal input; translation,technology
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT
Publisher:MDPI
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/informatics6010013
Copyright Information:© 2019 The Authors. Open Access
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland
ID Code:24602
Deposited On:15 Jun 2020 13:00 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 15 Jun 2020 13:00
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