Can real-time machine translation overcome language barriers in distributed requirements engineering?

Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 257-264

  Calefato, Fabio ^a   Lanubile, Filippo ^a   Minervini, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Distributed development; Language barrier; Machine translation; Requirements engineering; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CULTURAL DISTANCE; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SIMULATION;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 78149308784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2010.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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