Towards crowdsourcing translation tasks in library cataloguing, a pilot study

4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies - Conference Proceedings of IEEE-DEST 2010, DEST 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 572-577

  Corney, Jonathan ^a   Lynn, Andrew ^a   Torres, Carmen ^a   Di Maio, Paola ^a   Regli, William ^b   Forbes, Graeme ^c   Tobin, Lynne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Library cataloguing; Micro outsourcing; Natural language translation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TRANSLATION; COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; CROWDSOURCING; MICRO-OUTSOURCING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PILOT STUDIES;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; LIBRARIES; OUTSOURCING;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 78650293844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2010.5610593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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