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“TraduXio” is a collaborative environment for computer-assisted translation. Its innovative technology is well-suited to tackle the challenges of cultural (non-commercial, non-repetitive) texts. This chapter addresses the challenges of online multilingual collaborative literary translation, facilitated by recent developments to the TraduXio software (version 2.1). The chapter focuses on translators who engage in online literary translation collaboratively. The chapter presents a joint project of the LISH (Lettres, Interfaces et Sciences Humaines) Translation program at the University Paris 8 (France), the University of California Berkeley (United States) and Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy). This case study shows that “collective wisdom” can be understood as a didactic model and viable alternative to top-down or vertical team structures that render translation teams submissive to computation or supervisory human authority.
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MateCat (https://matecat.com) is both a computer assisted translation (CAT) and translation management platform, which is online and free of use. It allows one to insert a text and translate it (humanly) while benefiting from suggestions from Machine Translation or Public Translation Memory.
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Henkel, D., Lacour, P. (2021). Collaboration Strategies in Multilingual Online Literary Translation. In: Desjardins, R., Larsonneur, C., Lacour, P. (eds) When Translation Goes Digital. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51761-8_7
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