Towards crowdsourcing translation tasks in library cataloguing, a pilot study

Corney, Jonathan; Lynn, Andrew M.; Torres, Carmén; Maio, Paola Di; Regli, William C.; Forbes, Graeme; Tobin, Lynne

doi:10.1109/dest.2010.5610593

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“…Initially, many people and organizations, especially in the cultural heritage domain, expressed doubts about utilizing crowdsourcing to achieve their goals. However, a study by Corney et al (2010) provided substantial evidence on employing crowdsourcing in a cultural heritage project, specifically in translation tasks, and showed that crowdsourcing had a 77% success rate. Other studies, of the Bentham project (Causer and Terras 2014) and the Papers of the War Department project (Leon 2014), also agree that involving crowdsourcing in a transcription project leads to a higher success rate than when text on paper is scanned and automatically transcribed using computer software.…”

Section: Crowdsourcing Approach In Digital Humanities and Heritagementioning

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Digital Humanities: Community Participation in the Balinese Language Digital Dictionary

Cokorda

Iswara²,

Mogi

2020

J. Sistem Inf. (J. Inf. Sys.)

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In recent years, the capability of Balinese people to write and speak their mother tongue has declined significantly among the younger generations because of the growing influence and adoption of the national language, Bahasa Indonesia. It has spread rapidly among Balinese youth because it is considerably more straightforward than the Balinese language and is free of caste regulations. In this paper, we present the details of our digital humanities preservation research dealing with the Balinese language. We utilize community-based crowdsourcing to participate in expanding and enriching the BASABali Wiki digital dictionary in the form of an online competition. Ninety-six participants in 24 groups participated in our study, and their contribution populated 2686 new unique sentences to the BASABali Wiki digital dictionary. We also discuss the procedures employed to evaluate the digital dictionary: to receive feedback on the digital dictionary system and our approach to acquiring the knowledge of the community.

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Section: Crowdsourcing Approach In Digital Humanities and Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Humanities: Community Participation in the Balinese Language Digital Dictionary

Cokorda

Iswara²,

Mogi

2020

J. Sistem Inf. (J. Inf. Sys.)

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“…They proposed the following three step workflow to crowdsource the translation of non-Roman texts, i.e. language identification, translation of the text and remuneration (Corney, 2010).…”

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Enriching and enhancing digital cultural heritage through crowd contribution

Gupta

Sharma²

2017

JCHMSD

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the status of digitization of manuscripts in India and to give suggestions to transcribe these manuscripts easily, effortlessly and expeditiously. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on the analytical study of the literature available on global efforts in respect of documentation, preservation, conservation and digitization of manuscripts with special emphasis on the efforts of “namami” (acronym for National Manuscript Mission) for Indian manuscripts. Findings Meticulous analysis of literature and case studies give an overview of the diverse practices of public participation/crowd collaboration to transcribe and tagging of the rare and old historical documents around the globe. However, Indian libraries are far behind in adopting such practices. Practical implications India has a very rich cultural, educational and research heritage preserved in the form of manuscripts. These thousands of manuscripts are significant source of knowledge base for many researchers, however, despite their heritage value, these remain inaccessible to the researchers because of their being scattered and unpublished form. Moreover, even the digitized manuscripts remain difficult to use by the researchers because of immense linguistic diversity and scripts. Documentation and digitization of these manuscripts will not only preserve the invaluable heritage of India but also will enable their easy and vast access by the researchers globally. With the rapid growth in digital information and web-based technology, galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) around the world encourage and engage public participation in various digitization projects to enrich and enhance their digital collections and place them on the web. However, Indian GLAM still refrains to accept and adopt such practices. Thus this paper will encourage and motivate the Indian GLAM to expedite their digitization and uploading them on web for tagging and transcribing. Originality/value This is an original paper and has great implementation value. During the study enormous literature was available on digitization of Indian manuscripts. However, not even a single study could be found on tagging and transcription of these manuscripts, specifically crowd contribution in this area. Hence, the paper, by presenting the evidences of crowd participation for the tagging and transcription of manuscripts globally, proposes the Indian GLAM to exploit the benefits of this practice for Indian manuscripts also in order to expedite the tagging process to enhance their usage.

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“…Addressing the same concept Corney et al have proposed a workflow investigating the integration of crowd-sourcing translation into the cataloguing of foreign texts in libraries especially the non-roman ones [7].…”

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Towards improving machine translation using user generated content

Al-Khalifa

Al‐Khalifa

2011

2011 International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT)

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This paper presents a novel approach to overcome the limitation inherited in statistical machine translation services where the translation of new terms is not covered. The proposed approach is based on the power of user generated content to drive Arabic translations of English words. Our initial pilot experiment reveals the potential of our approach. This approach can act as an add-on to improve the quality of existing statistical translation services such as Google Translate.

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Towards crowdsourcing translation tasks in library cataloguing, a pilot study

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Digital Humanities: Community Participation in the Balinese Language Digital Dictionary

Digital Humanities: Community Participation in the Balinese Language Digital Dictionary

Enriching and enhancing digital cultural heritage through crowd contribution

Towards improving machine translation using user generated content

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