Toward communicating simple sentences using pictorial representations

This paper evaluates the hypothesis that pictorial representations can be used to effectively convey simple sentences across language barriers. Comparative evaluations show that a considerable amount of understanding can be achieved using visual descriptions of information, with evaluation figures within a comparable range of those obtained with linguistic representations produced by an automatic machine translation system.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: MT
• Authors: Rada Mihalcea, Chee Wee Leong
• Keywords: Automatic Machine Translation, Language Barriers, MT 2008, Simple Sentences