TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing misconceptions in multilingual computer-mediated communication
AU - Yamashita, Naomi
AU - Ishida, Toru
PY - 2005/12/1
Y1 - 2005/12/1
N2 - Multilingual communities using machine translation to overcome language barriers are showing up with increasing frequency. However, when a large number of translation errors get mixed into conversation, it becomes difficult for users to fully understand each other. In this paper, we focus on misconceptions found in high volume in actual online conversations using machine translation. By comparing responses via machine translation and responses without machine translation, we extract two response patterns, which may be strongly related to the occurrence of misconceptions in machine translation-mediated communication. The two response patterns are that users tend to respond to short phrases of the original message and tend to trip on the wording of the original message when responding via machine translation.
AB - Multilingual communities using machine translation to overcome language barriers are showing up with increasing frequency. However, when a large number of translation errors get mixed into conversation, it becomes difficult for users to fully understand each other. In this paper, we focus on misconceptions found in high volume in actual online conversations using machine translation. By comparing responses via machine translation and responses without machine translation, we extract two response patterns, which may be strongly related to the occurrence of misconceptions in machine translation-mediated communication. The two response patterns are that users tend to respond to short phrases of the original message and tend to trip on the wording of the original message when responding via machine translation.
KW - Computer-mediated communication
KW - Machine translation
KW - Misconception
KW - Multilingual groups
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U2 - 10.1145/1099203.1099274
DO - 10.1145/1099203.1099274
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70849107039
SN - 1595932232
SN - 9781595932235
T3 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
SP - 352
EP - 353
BT - GROUP'05 - Proceedings of the 2005 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
T2 - 2005 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'05
Y2 - 6 November 2005 through 9 November 2005
ER -