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On-line and Off-line Chinese-Portuguese Translation Service for Mobile Applications

 

Jordi Centelles^1,2, Marta R. Costa-jussà^1,2, Rafael E. Banchs², and Alexander Gelbukh³

 

¹ Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. jordi.centelles.sabater@alu-etsetb.upc.edu, marta.ruiz@upc.edu,

² Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. rembanchs@i2r.a-star.edu.sg

³ Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México D.F., Mexico. gelbukh@gelbukh.com.

 

Article received on 14/01/2014.
Accepted on 01/02/2014.

 

Abstract

We describe a Chinese-Portuguese translation service, which is integrated in an Android application. The application is also enhanced with technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition, Optical Character Recognition, Image Retrieval, and Language Detection. This mobile translation application, which is deployed on a portable device, relies by default on a server-based machine translation service, which is not accessible when no Internet connection is available. For providing translation support under this condition, we have developed a contextualized off-line search engine that allows the users to continue using the application. The system includes a search engine that is used to support our Chinese-Portuguese machine translation services when no Internet connection is available.

Keywords: Online communications, structure, usergenerated content, emotions.

 

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the Seventh Framework Program of the European Commission through the International Outgoing Fellowship Marie Curie Action (IMTraP-2011-29951) and also by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, contract TEC2012-38939-C03-02 as well as from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF/FEDER).

 

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