Intellingo: An Intelligible Translation Environment

Coppers, Sven; Van den Bergh, Jan; Luyten, Kris; Coninx, Karin; Van der Lek-Ciudin, Iulianna; Vanallemeersch, Tom; Vandeghinste, Vincent

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174098

Sven Coppers, Jan Van den Bergh, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx, Iulianna Van der Lek-Ciudin, Tom Vanallemeersch, & Vincent Vandeghinste, Intellingo: An Intelligible Translation Environment, in Regan L. Mandryk, Mark Hancock, Mark Perry, & Anna L. Cox (eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, April 21-26, 2018,524 (ACM 2018). DOI PDF

Abstract:

Translation environments offer various translation aids to support professional translators. However, translation aids typically provide only limited justification for the translation suggestions they propose. In this paper we present Intellingo, a translation environment that explores intelligibility for translation aids, to enable more sensible usage of translation suggestions. We performed a comparative study between an intelligible version and a non-intelligible version of Intellingo. The results show that although adding intelligibility does not necessarily result in significant changes to the user experience, translators can better assess translation suggestions without a negative impact on their performance. Intelligibility is preferred by translators when the additional information it conveys benefits the translation process and when this information is not part of the translator's readily available knowledge.