Coping with ambiguity in a large-scale machine translation system

Baker, Kathryn; Franz, Alexander; Jordan, Pamela W.; Mitamura, Teruko; Nyberg, Eric

doi:10.3115/991886.991899

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“…Syntactic ambiguities can arise from sentences that can be parsed in more than one way (Ferreria and Henderson, 1990; Snedeker and Trueswell, 2004). Semantic ambiguity can arise when the meaning of a sentence could be determined only with the help of greater knowledge sources (Baker et al , 2001; Small et al , 1999). Also, semantic ambiguity can arise if the same words elicit different cognitive or emotional states (Schaffer and Riordan, 2003).…”

Section: Important Factors In the Preparation Of Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Getting real about ICT

Fox

2013

Management Research Review

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PurposeHype about information and communication technology (ICT) emphasizes potential positive outcomes; while enabling factors are under‐emphasized and potential negative outcomes are excluded. The purpose of this paper is to broaden the framing of ICT to include enabling factors and potential negative outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes the form of a critical realist study. Critical realist research seeks to improve understanding of causal mechanisms and causal contexts.FindingsComprehensive enablers for decision making include balanced unambiguous information; specific trustworthy communication; quiet sufficient decision spaces; and independent engaged decision makers. The introduction of a new ICT can make a contribution to, and/or detract from, realization of these principal enabling factors.Research limitations/implicationsIn this paper ICT is positioned within a preliminary comprehensive framing of enabling factors for decision making. ICT is used for other purposes. Nonetheless, the positioning of ICT in a preliminary comprehensive framing for decision making support reveals how hype about ICT can be mediated by consideration of enabling factors and potential negative outcomes.Practical implicationsThe broader framing of enabling factors can provide a starting point for managers to undertake comprehensive improvement of information, communication, and contexts for decision making.Originality/valueThe originality of this paper is that it applies critical realism to mediate hype about ICTs that could be used to support decision making. The value of this paper is that it provides a detailed description of inter‐related factors that need to be managed in decision making support.

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Section: Important Factors In the Preparation Of Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Getting real about ICT

Fox

2013

Management Research Review

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“…Many different approaches (Bennett & Slocum, 1985;Brown et al, 1990;Chen & Chen, 1995;Nagao, 1984;Mitamura et al, 1991;Baker et al, 1994) to machinetranslation system design have been proposed in literature. However, traditional machine-translation technologies cannot be applied directly to online real-time Webpage translation.…”

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Cross-language information access to multilingual collections on the internet

Bian

Chen

2000

JASIS

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“…Many different approaches (Bennett & Slocum, 1985; Brown et al, 1990; Chen & Chen, 1995; Nagao, 1984; Mitamura et al, 1991; Baker et al, 1994) to machine‐translation system design have been proposed in literature. However, traditional machine‐translation technologies cannot be applied directly to online real‐time Web‐page translation.…”

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Cross-language information access to multilingual collections on the internet

Bian

Chen

2000

J. Am. Soc. Info. Sci.

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Language barrier is the major problem that people face in searching for, retrieving, and understanding multilingual collections on the Internet. This paper deals with query translation and document translation in a Chinese‐English information retrieval system called MTIR. Bilingual dictionary and monolingual corpus‐based approaches are adopted to select suitable translated query terms. A machine transliteration algorithm is introduced to resolve proper name searching. We consider several design issues for document translation, including which material is translated, what roles the HTML tags play in translation, what the tradeoff is between the speed performance and the translation performance, and what form the translated result is presented in. About 100,000 Web pages translated in the last four months of 1997 are used for quantitative study of online and real‐time Web page translation.

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Coping with ambiguity in a large-scale machine translation system

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Getting real about ICT

Getting real about ICT

Cross-language information access to multilingual collections on the internet

Cross-language information access to multilingual collections on the internet

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