Implementation and experiments for interactive lyrics transcreation system  

作　　者：Ayano Nishimura Takayuki Itoh 

机构地区：[1]Ochanomizu University,2-1-1 Otsuka,Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo 1128610,Japan

出　　处：《Visual Computing for Industry,Biomedicine,and Art》2020年第1期179-194,共16页工医艺的可视计算（英文）

摘　　要：The evolution of the Internet has enabled us to enjoy the music created in various countries.But still,it is often difficult to understand the lyrics written in foreign languages.Professional translators have published many international songs with lyrics that fit the melody so that the ordinary people can enjoy the lyrics of such international songs.This paper discusses lyrics transcreation into the Japanese language.Also,the paper presents an interactive visual lyrics transcreation system and describes the details of its implementation.This system allows users to select temporary lyrics from a set of tentative translations and then freely modify the lyrics with a real-time visualization mechanism.We also propose a lyrics translation algorithm that solves an essential problem of lyrics translation into Japanese.In this study,we interviewed two experts regarding problems with lyrics translation and received reviews of our presented system.We also conducted preliminary experiments with 19 participants to determine the best combination of user interface components for our system.We performed additional user experiments inviting 12 participants to compare lyrics transcreation using the presented system to manual lyrics transcreation.Lyrics transcreation by the presented system brought better results against those of manual transcreation.

关 键 词：Lyrics transcreation Score visualization Interactive system 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]