TY - GEN
T1 - Task-based interaction with an integrated multilingual, multimedia information system
T2 - 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2007: Building and Sustaining the Digital Environment
AU - Zhang, Pengyi
AU - Plettenberg, Lynne
AU - Klavans, Judith L.
AU - Oard, Douglas W.
AU - Soergel, Dagobert
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper describes a formative evaluation of an integrated multilingual, multimedia information system, a series of user studies designed to guide system development. The system includes automatic speech recognition for English, Chinese, and Arabic, automatic translation from Chinese and Arabic into English, and query-based and profile-based search options. The study design emphasizes repeated evaluation with the same (increasingly experienced) participants, exploration of alternative task designs, rich qualitative and quantitative data collection, and rapid analysis to provide the timely feedback needed to support iterative and responsive development. Results indicate that users presented with materials in a language that they do not know can generate remarkably useful work products, but that integration of transcription, translation, search and profile management poses challenges that would be less evident were each technology to be evaluated in isolation.
AB - This paper describes a formative evaluation of an integrated multilingual, multimedia information system, a series of user studies designed to guide system development. The system includes automatic speech recognition for English, Chinese, and Arabic, automatic translation from Chinese and Arabic into English, and query-based and profile-based search options. The study design emphasizes repeated evaluation with the same (increasingly experienced) participants, exploration of alternative task designs, rich qualitative and quantitative data collection, and rapid analysis to provide the timely feedback needed to support iterative and responsive development. Results indicate that users presented with materials in a language that they do not know can generate remarkably useful work products, but that integration of transcription, translation, search and profile management poses challenges that would be less evident were each technology to be evaluated in isolation.
KW - Cross-language information retrieval
KW - Multimedia
KW - User studies
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/36349019841
U2 - 10.1145/1255175.1255199
DO - 10.1145/1255175.1255199
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:36349019841
SN - 1595936440
SN - 9781595936448
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries
SP - 117
EP - 126
BT - Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2007
Y2 - 18 June 2007 through 23 June 2007
ER -