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Development of Korean-to-English and English-to-Korean Mobile Translator for Smartphone

스마트폰용 영한, 한영 모바일 번역기 개발

  • 여상화 (경인여자대학 정보미디어학부) ;
  • 채흥석 ((주)엘엔아이소프트)
  • Received : 2010.12.18
  • Accepted : 2011.01.13
  • Published : 2011.03.31
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Abstract

In this paper we present light weighted English-to-Korean and Korean-to-English mobile translators on smart phones. For natural translation and higher translation quality, translation engines are hybridized with Translation Memory (TM) and Rule-based translation engine. In order to maximize the usability of the system, we combined an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine and Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine as a Front-End and Back-end of the mobile translators. With the BLEU and NIST evaluation metrics, the experimental results show our E-K and K-E mobile translation equality reach 72.4% and 77.7% of Google translators, respectively. This shows the quality of our mobile translators almost reaches the that of server-based machine translation to show its commercial usefulness.

본 논문에서는 스마트폰용 경량화된 영한, 한영 모바일 번역기를 설계 및 구현한다. 번역 엔진은 자연스러운 번역과 높은 번역 품질을 위해 번역 메모리와 규칙기반의 번역 엔진으로 이중화를 한다. 개발된 번역 엔진의 사용자의 사용성 (Usability)을 극대화하기 위해 스마트폰에 내장된 카메라를 통한 문자인식(OCR; Optical Character Recognition) 엔진과 음성 합성 엔진(TTS; Text-to-Speech)을 각각 Front-End와 Back-end에 접목하였다. 실험결과 번역 품질은 BLEU와 NIST 평가치를 기준으로 구글번역기 대비 영한 번역은 72.4%, 한영 번역은 77.7%로 평가되었다. 이러한 평가결과는 본 논문에서 개발한 모바일 자동번역기가 서버 기반의 번역기의 성능에 근접하며 상업적으로 유용함을 보여준다.

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