An exploratory study of how technology supports communication in multilingual groups

International Journal of e-Collaboration

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-29

  Aiken, Milam ^a   Wang, Jianfeng ^b   Gu, Linwu ^b   Paolillo, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Electronic meetings; Group support systems; Machine translation; Machine translation accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954495926     PISSN: 15483673     EISSN: 15483681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jec.2011010102     Document Type: Article

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