The Chinese room: Visualization and interaction to understand and correct ambiguous machine translation

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1047-1054

  Albrecht, Joshua ^a   Hwa, Rebecca ^a   Marai, G Elisabeta ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; DECODING; VISUALIZATION;

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; CHINESE ROOM; END USERS; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 68549139955     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01443.x     Document Type: Article

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