A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain
Shehroze Khan, Jihyun Kim, Tarik Zulfikarpasic, Peter Chen, Nizar Habash
Abstract
We present Qutr (Query Translator), a smart cross-lingual communication application for the travel domain. Qutr is a real-time messaging app that automatically translates conversations while supporting keyword-to-sentence matching. Qutr relies on querying a database that holds commonly used pre-translated travel-domain phrases and phrase templates in different languages with the use of keywords. The query matching supports paraphrases, incomplete keywords and some input spelling errors. The application addresses common cross-lingual communication issues such as translation accuracy, speed, privacy, and personalization.- Anthology ID:
- C18-2033
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Editor:
- Dongyan Zhao
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 152–156
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C18-2033
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Shehroze Khan, Jihyun Kim, Tarik Zulfikarpasic, Peter Chen, and Nizar Habash. 2018. A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 152–156, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain (Khan et al., COLING 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/C18-2033.pdf