Language, culture, and translation in disaster ICT: an ecosystemic model of understanding

Cadwell, Patrick; O’Brien, Sharon

doi:10.1080/0907676x.2016.1142588

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“…the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London), a region (the 2017 earthquake in Mexico), a nation (the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, or the 2010 Haiti earthquake) or across borders between multiple countries (the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami across 18 countries in the Indian Ocean). Triggered by natural hazards, or teleological motivationshuman-driven disasters, including terrorism and conflict (Glade and Alexander, 2016) happen within multilingual and multicultural societies (Cadwell, 2014;Cadwell and O'Brien, 2016;O'Brien and Cadwell, 2017). Increased people displacement and economic migrations across the world causes major concerns for migrants' adaptability to disasters in their new contexts.…”

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Crisis translation: considering language needs in multilingual disaster settings

O’Brien

Federici

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the role that language translation can play in disaster prevention and management and to make the case for increased attention to language translation in crisis communication. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on literature relating to disaster management to suggest that translation is a perennial issue in crisis communication. Findings Although communication with multicultural and multilinguistic communities is seen as being in urgent need of attention, the authors find that the role of translation in enabling this is underestimated, if not unrecognized. Originality/value This paper raises awareness of the need for urgent attention to be given by scholars and practitioners to the role of translation in crisis communication.

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Crisis translation: considering language needs in multilingual disaster settings

O’Brien

Federici

2019

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“…Inghilleri, 2009;Baigorri-Jalón, 2011;Baker and Maier, 2011;Munro, 2013), little research has been done with regards to crisis translation needs that arise during sudden-onset emergencies, which may, or may not, involve conflict. This was already confirmed by Cadwell (2016) and Cadwell and O'Brien (2016), who additionally pointed out the limited evidence for research on the use of translation technologies in crises. In fact, although the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in disasters has been addressed elsewhere (e.g.…”

Section: Information and Communication Technologies In Crisis Translationmentioning

confidence: 70%

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

Escartín¹,

Moniz²

2019

Translation 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 approachmachine 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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“…We focus on several key ideas in the basic theoretical positions that we ask participants to adopt in a citizen translation project. Based on previous work on translation in disaster and crisis settings (Cadwell and O'Brien 2016; O'Brien and Cadwell 2017), we encourage participants to consider the expression of a message not just in a linguistic context but also in an appropriate cultural, emotionally intense, and resource-constrained context. We underline that people involved in the citizen translation process should be attentive readers and we ask participants to focus on potential information loss, reminding them that only they as the translator, reviewer, or liaison will have access to both the start text and translated text.…”

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Training citizen translators

Federici

Cadwell

2018

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Translators and interpreters have been shown to play an important role in supporting the activities of NGOs involved in crisis communication scenarios. However, there is little evidence of whether standardized training materials or technological assistance are required by or would be beneficial to quickly recruited ‘citizen translators’ working in these environments. This article will present a study of the design, delivery, and preliminary evaluation of a set of training materials developed for use in a citizen translation project run by New Zealand Red Cross (NZRC) with the support of the EU H2020-funded International Network on Crisis Translation (INTERACT). The article describes the training materials and discusses the epistemological and didactic issues that were faced in their design and delivery. Findings from the article will be of interest to those seeking to understand citizen translation and issues involved in working with an NGO on translator training.

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Language, culture, and translation in disaster ICT: an ecosystemic model of understanding

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

Crisis translation: considering language needs in multilingual disaster settings

Crisis translation: considering language needs in multilingual disaster settings

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

Training citizen translators

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