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Crowdsourcing and machine translation: the start of a beautiful friendship
June 30, 2011 Share Machine-aided translation is one of those things people love to hate. Despite the best efforts of enthusiasts like myself, the majority of computer users still believe that machines are useless translators.
The whole area of machine translation has a terrible image problem. There are endless jokes and “true” stories about computer translation failures. Some of these …
Crowdsourcing and machine translation: the start of a beautiful friendship
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Leave a commentNordic Tech Tour: Our journey gets going
June 18, 2010… While every journey is different, all share the thrill of turning an idea into reality.
For any start-up, a key point in this process is when it pokes its head to the world. If it is mishandled, even a promising business risks having it chopped off. This is part of the reason it’s a good idea to take part in a pitching competition. Not only does it provide great exposure to the media and possible investors, it also forces you to cut down your key message from forty pages to ten.
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awards, microtask, pitching, start-up, tech tour, venture capital, winning | 2 CommentsFrom millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012Share Every country in the world has probably benefited in some way from the unprecedented access to knowledge and services brought about by the digital revolution. But producing the knowledge banks and services has so far been a predominately rich-country business. The world’s poorest countries have generally not been able to participate in the production side of the digital …
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