Multilingual Chat through Machine Translation

A Case of English-Russian

Bibliographic Data

ID10607180
AuthorsMehmet Şahin (0000-0002-9077-1241, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey), Derya Duman (0000-0002-1604-4951, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey)
Year2014
Volume58
Issue2
Pages397-410
Publication date2014-03-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/1024180ar
OpenAlexW2109130931
LanguageEN
References cited11

Recent developments in machine translation give hope for the possibility of communication without language barriers, as real-time interlingual conversations facilitated through automatic translation are already possible using free applications. This study aimed at measuring the level of intelligibility and accuracy of real-time chat messages translated instantly by translation bots embedded in GoogleTalk. The data consisted of chat scripts of a total of 12 sessions conducted between three pairs formed each of a native English- and Russian-speaker. The participants also answered a questionnaire about their chat experiences. The results suggest that even without any knowledge of the language of the other party, participants were able to conduct conversations on various topics without encountering any serious communication breakdown. About three fourth of the translated propositions were intelligible as well as accurate based on the human evaluation. Participants also reported positive comments on the effectiveness of this kind of interlingual communication, especially for informal chat

Intelligibility (philosophy) · Linguistics · Machine translation · Natural language processing · Programming language · Scripting language · World Wide Web · AI in Service Interactions · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Speech and dialogue systems

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