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We have developed a multilingual chat communication support system in Second
Life as an initial research. We carried out a multilingual chat communication
experiment in Second Life.
From the experiments, we found the following:
(1) It is important that a machine translation machine make it visible in a 3D
virtual space. A user can easily learn the usage of a machine translation.
(2) There is not understanding other party's language in the problem because
appearances of each avatar are free. It is important for users to show trans-
lation language pairs not to give confusion.
The present machine translation could not handle colloquialisms well. However,
it was possible to talk enough if there is motivation of communications.
Currently, the multilingual chat communication support system in Second
Life has been opened to the public as a trial at the following URL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/3D%20Community%20Lab/209/140/32
Acknowledgment.
We would like to thank the reviewers for the careful con-
sideration of the paper and for constructive comments and suggestions made to
improve the paper. This work was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Sci-
entific Research (B) (No. 19300036, 2007-2009), and by the Okawa foundation
for information and telecommunications(2008).
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