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Computers have been considered and appropriated for natural language translation since the late 1940’s. Since the commercialization of the Internet in the early 1990’s, the role of computers to support translation work has expanded. The idea of ‘crowd sourcing’, i.e. engaging website visitors or community members, has been appropriated to enable ‘crowd translation’ or ‘community translation’ of multi-lingual web sites. In this paper, we present Babbler - a novel concept for community translation. The concept is described. A proof-of-concept (software implementation) was built and put into use in an information systems development project. The concept and the software were evaluated through log analysis and interviews with translators. We demonstrate various qualities of the concept and its implementation, including its effectiveness, efficiency, reliability, workflow, implementability and performance. Improvement opportunities, implications for future research and implications for practice are discussed.
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Sjöström, J., Hermelin, M. (2013). In-Place Translation in Information Systems Development. In: Helfert, M., Donnellan, B. (eds) Design Science: Perspectives from Europe. EDSS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04090-5_9
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