ElanexCROWD - translation crowdsourcing
ElanexCROWD is a revolutionary new concept in the translation industry - a crowdsourced translation management platform enabling any company to take advantage of its 'crowd' to:
- Reduce translation cost
- Reduce translation turnaround time
- Improve quality
- Develop stronger ties with its community
Translation crowdsourcing
The concept of crowdsourcing has become firmly established in recent years as a new paradigm enabled by internet technologies: the ability for an organization to get things done using contributions from its user community.
In the case of translation, many companies have user communities containing individuals who are perfectly suited to creating translations for the company - but historically the companies did not have a mechanism for taking advantage of their contributions. Some companies, notably Google and Facebook, have created proprietary systems enabling translation crowdsourcing for their own platforms. ElanexCROWD enables any company to take advantage of crowdsourced translation.
Will it work for me?
The primary question is whether you have an active user community containing individuals with the requisite language skills. If you already operate a user forum or support group, or have any kind of wiki for user contributions, or pro-actively manage a user base, you will be able to assess this relatively easily. Elanex can help you categorize your user base to help determine whether crowdsourcing is feasible.
What does ElanexCROWD do?
In essence, ElanexCROWD is a very granular translation management platform. It lets companies initiate translation projects, and then projects can be completed by users who 'self-assign' at a very fine level - even down to the level of one sentence. Translations are graded by others in the community based on 'trust'; trust scores for all contributors are created based on the ratings of their contributions. In other words, the community and the quality management are 'self-organizing'. The core technology at the heart of CROWD is the same translation management system that powers every job Elanex completes, with specific extensions to facilitate trust management, very large numbers of contributors on each job, assignment of very small translations, and monitoring of contributions to ensure completion of projects.
This sounds groundbreaking - how do I find out more?
Please contact us! We would be delighted to schedule a consultation, assess your situation, and provide a recommendation.