Touch Editing: A Flexible One-Time Interaction Approach for Translation (2020.aacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for machine translation require intensive keyboard interaction, which is inconvenient on mobile devices. |
| Approach: | They propose a touch-based editing method that is more flexible than keyboard-mouse-based translation postediting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method significantly outperforms existing interactive translation methods on translation datasets and on post-editing datasets. |
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