• DocumentCode
    1618533
  • Title

    Minna no Hon´yaku hosting volunteer translators

  • Author

    Utiyama, Masao

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    402
  • Lastpage
    402
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. This paper introduces a website called Minna no Hon´yaku (MNH, “Translation for All”), which hosts online volunteer translators. Its core features are (1) a set of translation aid tools, (2) high quality, comprehensive language resources, and (3) the legal sharing of translations. As of May 2010, there are about 1200 users and 4 groups registered to MNH. The groups using it include such major NGOs as Amnesty International Japan and Democracy Now! Japan.
  • Keywords
    Web sites; MNH; Minna no Hon´yaku; NGO; amnesty international Japan; comprehensive language resources; hosting volunteer translators; translation aid tools;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS), 2010 4th International
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7821-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IUCS.2010.5666755
  • Filename
    5666755