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How might we create a network of volunteers who would be willing to translate academic documents from English into Other Languages? #62

Open NouranRezk opened 6 years ago

NouranRezk commented 6 years ago

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Submission name: How might we create a network of volunteers who would be willing to translate academic documents from English into Arabic?

Contact lead: nouranrezk97@gmail.com

Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenEducation

Region: #Africa

Issue Type: #Challenge

Description

Want to create a network to help the students and researcher to understand the academic documents which is written in English because it is a foreign language and sometimes becomes a barrier for knowledge or research.

guichactis commented 6 years ago

Great project @NouranRezk, glad you decided to submit this challenge to start framing this. So, are you thinking of any particular subject area or discipline in which researchers are having troubles to access knowledge because of this language barrier?

NouranRezk commented 6 years ago

@guichactis I would like to be in all the Science areas.

NouranRezk commented 6 years ago

waiting for you all guys in the main hall, the second table on the right side! ^_^

Daniel-Mietchen commented 6 years ago

I think it's worth considering whether the translation of documents from one natural language into another is scalable for your purposes.

As an alternative, consider annotating a paper (in whatever language it is) and then adding the extracted facts to a database that is machine-readable and aware of multiple natural languages.

As an example, check out the Wikidata statement

Q13561329 P1910 Q41112

whose English equivalent would be "Reelin expression is decreased in schizophrenia", which is basically what was annotated on the source. If you then switch the language to, say, Arabic, you'll see that ريلين (Reelin) and فصام (schizophrenia) have already been translated, while the property "decreased expression in" has not. Once you do that, all further instances of "decreased expression in" will also be available in Arabic, so no need to re-translate them, as would be the case in classical document-based translations.

char-siuu-bao commented 6 years ago

An update from our meeting just now, on concrete next steps:

List of folks present at the meeting who want to contribute: Eunice, Osman, Lena, Felix, Collins, Vinodh, Nouran, Lorraine

Next steps:

npscience commented 6 years ago

I love this idea and that you submitted it as a project here @NouranRezk - thank you!

Sorry I didn't get a chance to contribute earlier. I think this could be really powerful not only for translating content for others to benefit, but also for congregating a diverse and supportive community of translators (I wonder if some already exist and could be learnt from? e.g. of wikipedia?).

One thing that's been in the back of my mind: eLife write plain language summaries of the research articles, to make them accessible to the non-expert (as the article itself is often written with way too much technical jargon, is too hard to understand unless you are deep into the subject, and is too long to digest quickly).

I want to help my mum (who is a french and german teacher, retired but wanting to keep her skills) to translate these summaries. Can she be a part of this community (if she is comfortable)?

Do you think it is achievable for these science summaries to be content that is translated as part of this project/by this community? Examples at: https://medium.com/@elife

char-siuu-bao commented 6 years ago

I'm just seeing this now. @npscience - it would be awesome if your mum could help out (I think at least!)

I'm still waiting for the OpenCon livestream materials to be organized and released, but when those are out I'll share the transcripts and subtitles so we can start translating. Thanks all for your patience!

RaoOfPhysics commented 6 years ago

I'm also in! I was in the group discussion. :)

silviaegt commented 5 years ago

Btw... has anyone proposed already a translation of the Do-a-thons guidelines into Spanish?

JosephMcArthur commented 5 years ago

Not to my knowledge, sadly!

Gimena commented 5 years ago

I'd love to collaborate with this! Do-a-thons are always great and the tutorial can be re-used in other many contexts!

JosephMcArthur commented 5 years ago

That's awesome, we'd be happy to as well! Are you a part of the LATAM re-organizing team?

Gimena commented 5 years ago

Sadly, not. Missed the call for grants and I'm also very busy this year. But can help online or as a future project.

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JosephMcArthur commented 5 years ago

That's grand! I've let them know you're interested in helping on this then!

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Sadly, not. Missed the call for grants and I'm also very busy this year. But can help online or as a future project.

Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8997-5415 Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ Twitter: @gimenadelr Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: https://hdcaicyt.github.io/

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