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Yocoy: Mobile Multilingual Technologies for Overcoming Communication Barriers

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The coexistence of Western and Eastern languages and cultures poses a true challenge for global mobility and communication in business and personal life. In this paper, we will describe mobile software applications that are built on top of multilingual and crosslingual technologies for overcoming language barriers, e.g., between English and Chinese, or German and Chinese. The mobile applications are interactive language guides, culture guides and country guides. They support automatic translation and dialogues between people and link the language part with information needed in a specific situation. Furthermore, users can integrate pictures into their phrases for extending the descriptive capabilities of the dialogue component. Semantic search facilitates access to words, phrases and information content.

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  1. http://www.yocoy.com

  2. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-you-phrasebook-english-chinese/id356347689?mt=8

  3. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yochina-language-travel-culture/id401123365?mt=8

  4. http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/china-taxi-book/id445493942?mt=8

  5. http://itunes.apple.com/app/china-smart-dining/id498938076

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  1. Uszkoreit H, Xu F, Liu W (2007) Challenges and solutions of multilingual and translingual information service systems (invited paper). In: Proceedings of HCI international 2007, 12th international conference on human-computer interaction volume, Beijing

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  1. Yocoy Technologies GmbH, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559, Berlin, Germany

    Feiyu Xu & Sven Schmeier

  2. DFKI GmbH, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559, Berlin, Germany

    Hans Uszkoreit

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Yocoy Technologies GmbH is based in Berlin, founded as the 50th spin-off company of German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI, http://www.dfki.de) in 2007. The mission of Yocoy is to overcome language barriers between people, between people and information and between people and technology. Yocoy has developed language, culture, country and city guides as mobile applications.

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Xu, F., Schmeier, S. & Uszkoreit, H. Yocoy: Mobile Multilingual Technologies for Overcoming Communication Barriers. Künstl Intell 26, 309–312 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-012-0213-4

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