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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2011.16.3.229

Development of Korean-to-English and English-to-Korean Mobile Translator for Smartphone  

Yuh, Sang-Hwa (Div. of Information & Media, Kyungin Women's College)
Chae, Heung-Seok (LNISOFT Corp.)
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Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information / v.16, no.3, 2011 , pp. 229-236 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper we present light weighted English-to-Korean and Korean-to-English mobile translators on smart phones. For natural translation and higher translation quality, translation engines are hybridized with Translation Memory (TM) and Rule-based translation engine. In order to maximize the usability of the system, we combined an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine and Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine as a Front-End and Back-end of the mobile translators. With the BLEU and NIST evaluation metrics, the experimental results show our E-K and K-E mobile translation equality reach 72.4% and 77.7% of Google translators, respectively. This shows the quality of our mobile translators almost reaches the that of server-based machine translation to show its commercial usefulness.
Keywords
English-to-Korean Mobile Translator; Korean-to-English Mobile Translator; Smartphone;
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