Moniz, Helena

Parra Escartín, Carla

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Ethical considerations on the use of machine translation and crowdsourcing in cascading crises

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When a sudden-onset emergency occurs, the language needs of those affected

and those involved in the relief efforts cannot be foreseen. Provided that access to

online communication is still available, it is not unlikely that many involved in

the crisis will resort to language technologies such as machine translation and

initiatives such as crowdsourcing to assist in the urgent need for multilingual

communication. This may be done in an attempt to understand the key messages

from official bodies, or relief organisations, when there is a lack of professional

translators to assist in the multilingual communication process. This approach -

machine translation and crowdsourcing - was successfully used in a previous

crisis, i.e. the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. However, the use of technologies cannot

be taken for granted. Even if they are supposedly used for good, a number of

ethical issues should be given consideration before using these technologies,

when using them, and in the aftermath of a crisis. In this chapter, we describe

those issues by having a closer look at potential crisis translation workflows

which rely on machine translation and crowdsourcing

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Ethical considerations on the use of machine translation and crowdsourcing in cascading crises

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