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interpretations and usage examples for the pictogram, written in Japanese). Language
Grid machine translation services then translate this Japanese result, and the
translation is output to the user as the search result. The service uses Google Translate
provided by Language Grid as its machine translation engine.
4.3 Standard-Language Correspondence Table
The interpretations and usage examples of pictograms given in the pictogram
interpretation table are colloquial forms peculiar to mobile phone usage, so attempting
to machine-translate them without preprocessing generates incorrect results. We
therefore created a standard-language correspondence table to convert these colloquial
forms to machine translatable standard-language forms. The standard-language
correspondence table has two fields, one for the colloquial form of the entry and one
for its machine-translatable standard-language form. It converts entries from
colloquial to standard-language forms by linking to the pictogram interpretation table
and calling queries.
When selecting the terms to enter in the standard-language correspondence table,
we sought to improve translation precision by using a back-translation service
provided by Language Grid to check that the entered text matched the back-translated
result, before storing the data. Of the 6,624 pictogram interpretations/usage examples
we compiled in Japanese from the questionnaires described in Section 2, we linked
the original colloquial forms to standard-language versions for a total of 1,337 items.
The remaining 5,287 items yielded correct results when machine-translated without
modification. Table 1 shows examples of colloquial forms and their standard-
language equivalents, and the compares the machine translation results for each.
Table 1. Example colloquial and standard-language forms, and machine-translation results of
each
Colloquial
language
(in Japanese)
Standard
language
(in Japanese)
Translation
results in a
colloquial
language
Translation
results in a
standard
language
Ohaaa
Ohayo
--- us
Morning
(wara)
(warai)
(Laughs)
Laughter
Kono TV
omoshiroi
Kono
TVbangumi
wa omoshiroi
Interesting in
this TV
This TV show
interesting
Suteki
Suteki (in
Kanji)
Suteki
Nice
Asobo
Asobou.
Fun
Let's play.
5 Feedback and Comments
This section presents feedback and comments we received from users who tested the
prototype of the age-specific pictogram dictionary application and multilingual
translation service.
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