User-Controlled Content Translation in Social Media

Abstract

As it has become increasingly common for social network users to write and view post in languages other than English, most social networks now provide machine translations to allow posts to be read by an audience beyond native speakers. However, authors typically cannot view the translations of their posts and have little control over these translations. To address this issue, I am developing a prototype that will provide authors with transparency of and more personalized control over the translation of their posts.