A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain

Shehroze Khan, Jihyun Kim, Tarik Zulfikarpasic, Peter Chen, Nizar Habash


Abstract
We present Qutr (Query Translator), a smart cross-lingual communication application for the travel domain. Qutr is a real-time messaging app that automatically translates conversations while supporting keyword-to-sentence matching. Qutr relies on querying a database that holds commonly used pre-translated travel-domain phrases and phrase templates in different languages with the use of keywords. The query matching supports paraphrases, incomplete keywords and some input spelling errors. The application addresses common cross-lingual communication issues such as translation accuracy, speed, privacy, and personalization.
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C18-2033
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Dongyan Zhao
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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152–156
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Shehroze Khan, Jihyun Kim, Tarik Zulfikarpasic, Peter Chen, and Nizar Habash. 2018. A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 152–156, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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