31.2489, FYI: Translation Initiative for COVID-19

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Subject: 31.2489, FYI: Translation Initiative for COVID-19

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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 05:57:35
From: Antonis Anastasopoulos [anastasopoulos.ant at gmail.com]
Subject: Translation Initiative for COVID-19

 
The Translation Initiative for COVID-19 (TICO-19), is a consortium that aims
to help enable the translation of COVID-19 related content in a wide range of
languages, including very low-resource languages. We recently released a set
of corpora including translations into 37 different languages,
https://tico-19.github.io/testset.html, described in this paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01788.

We make a public call for community contributions to the TICO-19  project.

- You can contribute by translating the TICO-19 benchmark in more languages.
Ideally, the benchmark will grow to cover as many of the world's languages as
possible! However, we note that a large portion of the benchmark includes
medical terminology which is important to accurately translate. Thus, we
strongly encourage that professional translators handle the technical content,
and that you follow a rigorous process of Quality Assurance (e.g. a process
similar to the one described in our paper) over the produced translations.
Reach out to us and we will be glad to provide details on our QA process.
- If you are a professional translator and have already produced COVID-19
related content, you can share your translation memory and we will combine and
release it with ours. Similarly, if you have compiled terminologies with
COVID-19 terms, or if you find errors in our published terminologies, reach
out and we will update them accordingly.
- You can volunteer with Translators without Borders (TWB) if you are fluent
in at least one language other than your native language. Whether you are
interested in translating medical texts or translating for crisis response,
there are engaging projects available to suit all preferences. Professional
translators are especially encouraged to apply. Click here to complete the
Translator Application Form.

All community contributions will be properly acknowledged and labeled as such.

On behalf of the TICO-19 partners,
Antonis Anastasopoulos
 



Linguistic Field(s): Translation





 



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