A controlled experiment on the effects of machine translation in multilingual requirements meetings

Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 94-102

  Calefato, Fabio ^a   Lanubile, Filippo ^a   Prikladnicki, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

empirical study; language barrier; machine translation; requirements engineering

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MACHINES; COMMUNICATION TOOLS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION THEORY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 81255150897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2011.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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