Proofreading Human Translations with an E-pen
Vicent Alabau, Luis A. Leiva · 2014
Proofreading translated text is a task aimed at checking for correctness, consistency, and appropriate writing style.While this has been typically done with a keyboard and a mouse, pen-based devices set an opportunity for making such corrections in a comfortable way, as if proofreading on physical paper.Arguably, this way of interacting with a computer is very appropriate when a small number of modifications are required to achieve high-quality standards.In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of pen gestures that is tailored to machine translation review tasks, after human translator intervention.In addition, we evaluate the recognition accuracy of these gestures using a couple of popular gesture recognizers.Finally, we comment on open challenges and limitations, and discuss possible avenues for future work.