MMPE: A Multi-Modal Interface using Handwriting, Touch Reordering, and Speech Commands for Post-Editing Machine Translation (2020.acl-demos)
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Nico Herbig, Santanu Pal, Tim Düwel, Kalliopi Meladaki, Mahsa Monshizadeh, Vladislav Hnatovskiy, Antonio Krüger, Josef van Genabith
| Challenge: | a shift from traditional translation to post-editing (PE) of machine-translated text can save time and reduce errors, but it also affects the design of translation interfaces. |
| Approach: | They propose a prototype that combines traditional input modes with pen, touch, and speech modalities for post-editing of machine-translated (MT) they propose to use these modalités to cross out or hand-write new text, drag and drop words for reordering, or use spoken commands to update the text in place. |
| Outcome: | The proposed interfaces can be used to cross out or hand-write new text, drag and drop words for reordering, or use spoken commands to update the text in place. |
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