Recognition of Translator Expertise using Sequences of Fixations and Keystrokes

Pascual Martínez Gómez; Akshay Minocha; Jin Huang; Michael Carl; Srinivas Bangalore; Akiko Aizawa

doi:10.1145/2578153.2578201

Recognition of Translator Expertise using Sequences of Fixations and Keystrokes

Pascual Martínez Gómez, Akshay Minocha, Jin Huang, Michael Carl, Srinivas Bangalore, Akiko Aizawa

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Abstract

Professional human translation is necessary to meet high quality standards in industry and governmental agencies. Translators engage in multiple activities during their task, and there is a need to model their behavior, with the objective to understand and optimize the translation process. In recent years, user interfaces enabled us to record user events such as eye-movements or keystrokes. Although there have been insightful descriptive analysis of the translation process, there are multiple advantages in enabling quantitative inference. We present methods to classify sequences of fixations and keystrokes into activities and model translation sessions with the objective to recognize translator expertise. We show significant error reductions in the task of recognizing certified translators and their years of experience, and analyze the characterizing patterns.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Procedings of Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
Editors	Pernilla Qvarfordt, Dan Witzner Hansen
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2014
Pages	299-302
ISBN (Print)	9781450327510
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2578153.2578201
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	2014 Symposium on Eye tracking Research & Applications - Safety Harbor, FL, United States Duration: 26 Mar 2014 → 28 Mar 2014 Conference number: 8 http://www.etra2014.org/

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Conference	2014 Symposium on Eye tracking Research & Applications
Number	8
Country/Territory	United States
City	Safety Harbor, FL
Period	26/03/2014 → 28/03/2014
Internet address	http://www.etra2014.org/

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Gómez, PM, Minocha, A, Huang, J, Carl, M, Bangalore, S & Aizawa, A 2014, Recognition of Translator Expertise using Sequences of Fixations and Keystrokes. in P Qvarfordt & DW Hansen (eds), Procedings of Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 299-302, 2014 Symposium on Eye tracking Research & Applications, Safety Harbor, FL, United States, 26/03/2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2578153.2578201

Recognition of Translator Expertise using Sequences of Fixations and Keystrokes. / Gómez, Pascual Martínez; Minocha, Akshay; Huang, Jin et al.
Procedings of Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications. ed. / Pernilla Qvarfordt; Dan Witzner Hansen. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 299-302.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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