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isnotcheap- asinglepairoflanguagcs(forexamplc,
English-German/German-English) cancostsever<ll
thousandemDs,bursuchsystemscan warkdayand
nighttOhandlebrgenumbersofdocuments.
However,machine-rranslatedoutbound material,
suchasadverrising,letters,oepresentations,eancause
seriousmisunderstandings.Jfsuchtextsaretranslated
bysoftware,theymustbetd..iRdbyhumans,ideallyby
nativespcakersofthetargetlangua~e.Tberranslators
eitheracceptthesystem'sresullS,orrewritesentences.
andsometimesemire paragraphs.
Evenwhenmachineuanslationisedired,theprocess
is stilimuchfasterthanhumantranslation,saysProfes-
sorChristianSoiretarPranee'sGrenobleTnformarics
Laboratory:"Thercisnomachinctranslation thatis
badenoughthatit cannorbeusefulforbilingualspeak-
erswhowantorneedtopeoducetranslationsquickly."Spreadingtheword
C
rowdSQurcingiswhena firmgivestaskstoitsusersand
customers,whousuallydotheworkforfree.These'&!..!.L!l.:
~worktoimprovethefirm'sproducts,becausetheywant
tosharetheirideaswithotherusers.Andthedesiretoshare
news,facts,andfunwiththeworldcommunityhasmobilized
armiesoflanguageloverstoprovidetextsinforeignlanguages.
lheopentranslationprojectof theTechnology,Entertainment,
Design (TED) Conferences asksvolunteersto put foreign.
languagesubtlUesonits~.PeoplehaveprovidedFacebook
interfaces,Wikipediapages,andAdobeReaderapplications.
TheWorldBankiseonsideringcrowdsourcing,too.
Firmsthatusecrowdsourcingemphasizethattheyaremore
interestedingettingusersandconsumersinvolvedthaninsav-
ingmoney- theprojectmanagementandtechnologycosts
remainhigh,theysay.Crowdsourcingisnotmachinetransla-
tion,butitisa growingtrend,showinghowpeopleusecom-
putersandtheinternettoproclueematerialintheworld'slan-
guages.Still,thereisa limitto whatidealistseando.Youcan't
dependonvolunteersto ereateortranslateurgenttexts,high-
Iysclentificstudies,orconfjdentlaleompanydocuments.
Nohumans,please
Whenralkingabuuttranslation,weeasilyforget that
lotsofbusinesstexrsarehighlyspecialized,fral:;lDent-
cd,orfilledwirbfigures,suchasdimensionsorilllrI
numbers - in other words, exhaustingro work
[hrough.Usingcomputersrelievespeoplcof[histypeof
mind-nymbin~translationtask.
Acomputernevergetshurtdwithtechnicalreports,
scicncificsrudics,orproouc[manuals.Andwhenit'skd.
thcdataofa product-specificvocabulary,ircanbecomc
a specialistfasterthanitshumancoltcagues.TheCOlU-
purerwillthenconsisrcmlytranslatca termthcsame
way,somcthingthatmaynotbetruewitha teamofhu-14 BusinessSpodigbImans.Forexamplc."powersupply"couldbetranslat-
ed3SNetzgerätbyoneperson,andStromversorgl/ngby
anothcr,somethingwhichcouldcauseproblemsinfu-
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dothejobbetterrhanhumans," saysProfessorBoiter.
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whichhasbeentranslatingwearherforecasf5betwecn
EnglishandFrenchformorc[han 30 rears,withIlOhu-
manediring.
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