looking for mixed-language e-participation intiatives
From:
Matthias Trenel
Date:
2007 Mar 05 18:42 UTC
Short link
Hi Ella,
this one might be of interest for you:
*The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement Review
Dialogue*<http://www.webdialogues.net/cs/ijc-greatlakes-home/view/di/77?x-t=home>,
November 29-December 2, 2005. The International Joint Commission (the
governments of Canada and the United States) hosted a fully bilingual
dialogue to identify issues for the governments to consider as they review
the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement in the spring of 2006.
http://www.webdialogues.net/cs/ijc-greatlakes-home/view/di/77?x-t=home
Cheers, Matthias
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On 3/5/07, Steven Clift <clift@publicus.net> wrote:
>
>
> While not a consultation, this listserv has used auto-translation
> (they run a script to sneak their stuff through Altavista's
> Babelfish) for years. At the beginning they auto-translated to an
> editor who cleaned up the the posts and sent them in out in four main
> languages used in Latin America - Spanish, Portuguese, French, and
> English.
>
> See:
> http://funredes.org/mistica/
>
> More:
> http://funredes.org/mistica/castellano/emec/produccion/memoria12/0130.
> html
>
> Also, in 1996-8 the Junior Summit - http://www.jrsummit.net - hosted
> by MIT used auto/manual translation tools with young people
> supporting six languages. The top-level reports were translated
> manually and the discussions work just fine with the young people
> learning to avoid slang in order for others to get the gist.
>
> In general, resistance to auto-translation in conversation - even in
> experiments - is very unfortunate. I have yet to hear about an
> experiment that was a complete failure and people refuse to
> communicate. However, I only know of these two experiments.
>
> In both projects, folks choose their preferred language and are sent
> that version on top with the original just below in an e-mail.
>
> If I had the funding, I'd add such a feature to groups.dowire.org
> since it is database driven.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Clift
> http://dowire.org
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