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211014 Resource 114450 114534 114534 1218651571310 1218651571310 Controlled Language Translation - The Oxford English Dictionary – a pioneer in crowdsourcing?

There is plenty of talk these days about crowdsourcing, the wisdom of crowds, and wikis. These collaborative efforts are being used to manage all sorts of information and, in the case of Facebook, even to carry out language translation. But is this phenom

As VisualThesaurus.com points out in a recent interview with Oxford English Dictionary editor Jesse Sheidlower, the OED has been using a type of crowdsourcing for years – originally in a very low-tech manner:“The OED is a historical dictionary, which means that for every sense of every word it contains quotations from chiefly written sources, showing how that word has been used over time. Originally the way that you would get these quotations, which are called citations, was that you simply read a wide variety of texts.  And any time you come across an interesting word, you write it down on a slip of paper…You take a file of these, you sort them into order, you divide them up into senses.  And you have your dictionary there, based on the evidence that's in front of you.  In a way, it's a collaborative project, one of the earliest collaborative projects in a way that Wikipedia and things like that are thought to be now, where these books were read by a very large number of people, thousands of people spread all over the world.”(Jesse Sheidlower in <a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/dictionary/1477/">an interview</a> with VisualThesaurus.com, July 30, 2008) At <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/">Language Translation Inc.</a> in San Diego, California, we are keenly interested in new developments in the world of language and enjoy sharing them with you on this blog and our language blog, <a href="http://blogs.languagetranslation.com/">Language Links</a>. Our company provides language <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/translation-services.html">translation</a> and <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/interpreting-services.html">interpreting</a> services in <a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/languages.html">over 40 languages</a>. “Let us show you how good translation should be!”Betty Carlson<a href="http://www.languagetranslation.com/newsletter_signup.html">Sign up for Language Lines</a>, our free monthly newsletter, for more news about languages and the language service industry. 9 application/xml false crowdsourcing facebook translation language translation translation services Language Translation Inc. Language Translation Inc., a San Diego-based company has been serving the U.S. and countries abroad since 1989 with professional document translation, certified conference interpreting, and software / website localization services. http://www.languagetranslation.com/ Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 anevin 72.214.60.131 false true false false true 200517 false false true false false false true 114450 blog blogsite/LanguageTranslation/web