Interface[s] Montréal

Artificial Intelligence

Guy Lapalme

Université de Montréal, RALI Laboratory

Transtype: a computer-aided translation tool

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We present the TransType project developed over the last few years in our laboratory (RALI) in collaboration with researchers in France, Germany and Spain. Transtype is an interactive approach to translation in which the translator starts to type her translation for which the system continually suggests extensions. If the translator judges a suggestion as appropriate, she can easily accept it and thus avoid the typing this part of the translation. If she ignores the suggestion by continuing to type, the system will find another extension that can continue the current modified text. This approach can improve the translators' productivity in terms of words translated per hour. We will have a hands-on demonstration of this approach.

* Interface for Transtype as seen by a user who translates the text on the left by typing its translation on the right in which the system proposes extensions to it. Characters in red have been entered by the system once the user had accepted them. We can thus get an idea of the proportion of characters entered by the user on the overall text.*

Guy Lapalme is a professor a the department of Computer Science at the Université de Montréal. For more than 20 years, he has been involved in research in the area of Natural Language Processing and since 1997 in the context of the RALI.