Translator's knowledge in the cloud: the new translation technologies

After machine translation, the translation technology market is witnessing a new revolution. Relevant changes are taking place under emerging phenomena of the Web such as crowdsourcing, i.e., the exploitation of a community/group of people to perform tasks normally performed by employees and cloud computing technologies, which enable ubiquitous access to digital content and online multilingual translation tools. In particular, the combination of crowdsourcing and cloud models of automatic/assisted translation is taking place on a large scale, combined with the availability of tools shared in translation environments. This contribution will analyze the impact of the new collaborative translation technologies on the translation process and the working practices of translators, highlighting the possible implications in the field of translation teaching

Translation crowdsourcing: creating a multilingual corpus of online educational content

The present work describes a multilingual corpus of online content in the educational domain, i.e. Massive Open Online Course material, ranging from course forum text to subtitles of online video lectures, that has been developed via large-scale crowdsourcing. The English source text is manually translated into 11 European and BRIC languages using the CrowdFlower platform. During the process several challenges arose which mainly involved the in-domain text genre, the large text volume, the idiosyncrasies of each target language, the limitations of the crowdsourcing platform, as well as the quality assurance and workflow issues of the crowdsourcing process. The corpus constitutes a product of the EU-funded TraMOOC project and is utilised in the project in order to train, tune and test machine translation engines

Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities: An Action Research on the Shengxuanhuai Manuscript Transcription

In recent years, there has been an emerging trend in the GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to leverage crowdsourcing to improve the collection, organization, and evaluation of valuable resources. Although a se-ries of notable crowdsourcing projects in the digital humanities have been launched worldwide, there are few academic studies on investigating the im-plementation and evaluation of such cases. To fill up the research gap, this study aims at conducting a field exploration on the real case called the Shengxuanhuai Manuscript Transcription Initiative (Transcribe Sheng for short). In this poster, action research will be carried out to explore the vari-ous stages of Transcribe Sheng project. Our attempts may shed light on the design and evaluation principles of the crowdsourcing in the digital humani-ties

Legivoc - connecting law in a changing world

International audienceOn the Internet, legal information is a sum of national laws. Even in a changing world, law is culturally specific (nation -specific most of the time) and legal concepts only become meaningful when put in the context of a particular legal system. Legivoc aims to be a semantic interface between the subject of law of a State and the other spaces of legal information that it will be led to use. This project will consist of setting up a server of multilingual legal vocabularies from the European Union Member States legal systems, which will be freely available, for other uses via an application programming interface (API).Sur l'internet, l'information juridique disponible est essentiellement une somme de droits nationaux. Même dans un monde en mouvement, même en acceptant une approche globalisée, le droit est d'abord une affaire de cultures (de cultures nationales le plus souvent) et les concepts juridiques n'ont de sens qu'accompagné de l'environnement juridique auquel ils sont rattachés. Face à ce constat, Legivoc vise à être une interface sémantique entre le sujet de droit d'un État et les différents espaces d'informations juridiques qu'il sera amené à utiliser. Ce projet consistera d'abord à mettre en place un serveur de vocabulaires juridique multilingue de chacun des États membres de l'Union européenne

El papel de los MOOCs en el aprendizaje de lenguas: revelaciones de un curso de inglés para principiantes

This paper begins by analysing the features of MOOCs - massive open on-line courses which offer innovative methodological possibilities for the distance teaching and learning of languages. A study with a large cohort of students enrolled in two separate editions of a beginners’ English course was carried out. The results are analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively and conclusions pertinent to the MOOC teaching and learning paradigm are discussed. The teaching and learning experience in a MOOC with high levels of student participation and acceptance is described and some methodological support for teachers and researchers thinking of using this teaching methodology is offered.Este artículo comienza analizando las características distintivas de los nuevos cursos MOOC, cursos masivos en abierto y online, que siguen una metodología novedosa por su potencial para la enseñanza/aprendizaje de idiomas de forma autodirigida y a distancia. Se describe un estudio con un grupo numeroso de estudiantes en dos ediciones de un curso de iniciación para el aprendizaje del inglés como Lengua Extranjera. Seguidamente se han llevado a cabo sendos análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo de los resultados obtenidos. Se parte de la experiencia de un curso con una alta aceptación para indagar en las características que debe tener de forma genérica un MOOC y proporcionar consejos que puedan resultar de interés para otros docentes y/o investigadores

История, направления и некоторые проблемы современных исследований краудсорсинга как научно-практической дисциплины

Сегодня краудсорсинг является широко используемым способом решения многих задач сбора и агрегации данных. В данной работе проведен обзор исследований краудсорсинга как научно-практической дисциплины. Выделены направления исследований и сформулированы некоторые актуальные проблемы данной дисциплины.Today, crowdsourcing became a popular approach for various data collecting and mining tasks. In this work, several modern crowdsourcing studies in different research trends have been discussed and some problems within these trends have been mentioned