Predictive translation memory: A mixed-initiative system for human language translation

UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 177-188

  Green, Spence ^a   Chuang, Jason ^b   Heer, Jeffrey ^b   Manning, Christopher D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Interface design; Language translation; Mixed initiative

Indexed keywords

USER INTERFACES;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERACTIVE MODE; INTERFACE DESIGNS; LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; MIXED INITIATIVE; MIXED-INITIATIVE SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION MEMORY;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84912033479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2642918.2647408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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