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Machine translation effects on group interaction: an intercultural collaboration experiment

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ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1841853.1841864

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Even with the increasing use of machine translation to overcome language barriers it is still unclear how machine translation affects communication and interaction in intercultural groups. In this paper, we present the results of a laboratory experiment on intercultural distributed groups using machine translation-mediated chat as a communication tool. English-speaking participants from Finland and Japan worked with Japanese-speaking participants in a trading game scenario using machine translation-mediated chat as their main communication tool. Based on previous research we predicted that machine translation will help overcome the language barrier, but furthermore we predicted that machine translation would have a positive effect on social and relational communication as well as on overall group performance. In a controlled laboratory setting, machine translation proved to increase the amount of positive socioemotional messages and overall group performance in intercultural distributed groups with disparate language abilities.

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ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

August 2010

300 pages

ISBN:9781450301084

DOI:10.1145/1841853

General Chairs:
Pamela Hinds
Stanford University, USA
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Anne-Marie Søderberg
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Ravi Vatrapu
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Program Chairs:
Toru Ishida
Kyoto University, Japan
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Martha Maznevski
International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland
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Gary Olson
University of California-Irvine, USA

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