Towards statistical modelling of translators' activity data

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 125-138

  Carl, Michael ^a   Jakobsen, Arnt Lykke ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Human translation processes; Human assisted machine translation; Human machine interface; Statistical modelling; User activity data

Indexed keywords

EYE-TRACKING; HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL MODELLING; TRANSLATION PROCESS;

INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949917036     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: 15728110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10772-009-9044-6     Document Type: Article

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