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In our teaching practice, we often observe that, due to the lack of prerequisites and limited mastery of a language, foreign students face difficulties in understanding course contents. This especially burdens students from Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, because of the distance between their native languages and the instructional language (French in our case). We propose a quick and cost-effective method for making educational content accessible in the native tongues of the students, through a contributive computer-assisted multilingualization by voluntary participants. The process consists in post-editing MT (Machine Translation) pre-translations via an interactive multilingual access gateway (iMAG), which displays a web page in a selected language. Since 2012, several students have validated the approach by producing in Chinese more than 500 pages (125 K words) of French undergraduate and graduate course material about computer science, at a rate of about 10 min (total time) per standard page. This multilingual resource is freely accessible on the MACAU-Chamilo platform.
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There are now 23 official languages in the EU, but Croatian was added only in 2013.
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For 2 strings A, B and 2 words u, v, Dcomb(A, B) = α Dchar(A, B) + (1-α) Dwords(A, B), where Cost_exchange(u, v) = Dchar(u, v). This kind of mixed TER has ben introduced in 2004.
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h/p = hour per page, mn/p = minute per page, where a standard page has 250 words.
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Kalitvianski, R., Bellynck, V., Boitet, C. (2015). Multilingual Access to Educational Material Through Contributive Post-editing of MT Pre-translations by Foreign Students. In: Li, F., Klamma, R., Laanpere, M., Zhang, J., Manjón, B., Lau, R. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning -- ICWL 2015. ICWL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9412. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25515-6_10
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