A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain

Shehroze Khan; Jihyun Kim; Tarik Zulfikarpasic; Peter Chen; Nizar Habash

A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain

Shehroze Khan, Jihyun Kim, Tarik Zulfikarpasic, Peter Chen, Nizar Habash

Computer Science

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Number of pages	5
State	Published - 2018
Event	The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Santa Fe, United States Duration: Aug 20 2018 → Aug 26 2018

Conference

Conference	The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Abbreviated title	COLING
Country/Territory	United States
City	Santa Fe
Period	8/20/18 → 8/26/18

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A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain

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