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This paper describes the user interface design and evaluation of TransType, a system that watches over the user as he or she types a translation and repeatedly suggests completions for the text already entered. We show that this innovative approach to a translation tool, both unobtrusive and very useful, can be very productive for the translators.
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Langlais, P., Lapalme, G., Sauvé, S. (2001). User Interface Aspects of a Translation Typing System. In: Stroulia, E., Matwin, S. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2056. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45153-6_24
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