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How Handheld Translators Work and Why They're Handy for Travel
Your cell phone can handle basic language translation, but bespoke tools can offer a much more immersive experience. Hans Christian Andersen once said, "To travel is to live," and while that's a romantic notion, he probably wasn't careening through Gyeongju, South Korea, at midnight in the back of a taxi with a driver who didn't speak a lick of English. Today's world traveler has it awfully easy when it comes to understanding the local lingo, as even a basic modern cell phone app can offer a pretty good translation of common phrases delivered in everything from Abkhaz to Zulu. Type or speak a sentence or two into the app, tap a button, and out it returns in the language of your choice. Tap another button, and your phone can even speak those sentences aloud.
Extraction
Figure 5 shows an schema explaining the extraction of the entities. Each step is depicted in a triplet format: subject,predicate,object . Blue (italics) information is the information extracted at each step. For each step outlined with a dotted rectangle (), the information extracted is the subject; otherwise, the information extracted is the object. Figure 6 show an example of multilingual alignment for the languages considered in the high-resource use case: English, Arabic, Spanish and Russian.