Presentation 2011-11-24
Prototyping and Evaluating Support System for Understanding Multilingual Documents in Offshore Software Development
Xiangrui CHENG, Shinsuke MATSUMOTO, Masahide NAKAMURA,
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Abstract(in English) The offshore development, where a company commissions a whole or a part of software development to foreign companies, is now a global trend of software development. Due to the multilingual and intercultural nature, a variety of communication problems arises in the offshore development. This paper especially focuses on two problems: (a) difficulty for the offshore side to understand document in a different language, (b) difficulty for the onshore side to grasp the understanding of the partners. To cope with these problems, we design and develop a communication support system with two key features, the machine translation with the Language Grid web services and the feedback of understanding information. We have conducted an experimental evaluation, where 8 Chinese developers with Japanese competency read and understand a requirement specification of a liquor inventory management system. As a result, it was shown that the proposed system was useful especially for those with low Japanese competency to understand the specification.
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Keyword(in English) offshore software development / language grid / understanding feedback / machine translation
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Conference Date 2011/11/17(1days)
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Title (in English) Prototyping and Evaluating Support System for Understanding Multilingual Documents in Offshore Software Development
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Keyword(1) offshore software development
Keyword(2) language grid
Keyword(3) understanding feedback
Keyword(4) machine translation
1st Author's Name Xiangrui CHENG
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University()
2nd Author's Name Shinsuke MATSUMOTO
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University
3rd Author's Name Masahide NAKAMURA
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University
Date 2011-11-24
Paper # AI2011-31
Volume (vol) vol.111
Number (no) 316
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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