Crowdsourcing strategies and features

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In order to better understand what we mean by ‘crowdsourcing’ and to outline its scope more precisely, the first step is to define the peculiar features of this rather elusive concept. The term ‘crowdsourcing’ was coined by Jeff Howe as … Read More

Twitter features

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Tweet and retweet Each published short message, tweet, is limited to 140 characters and it forces users to be concise in their writing. Initially, Twitter could be used via SMS. These are limited to 160 characters, Twitter takes that limit … Read More

Key features of bilingual dictionaries

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A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a dictionary indicating the equivalence of words and/or phrases between two different languages. In practice, some dictionaries are more common, and some languages mediate between two others. For example, many original version of … Read More

WordPress features

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WordPress is a blogging software that has all the usual features of this type of software. It allows multiple authors to publish posts, which are ordered by date and by category. Multiple categories can be assigned to a given post. … Read More

Languages features comparison in machine translatioon – To English language

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The following table compares the amount of languages which the following machine translation programs can translate between. (Moses allows to train translation models for any language pair, though collections of translated texts (parallel corpus) need to be provided.) This is … Read More

Web accessibility

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Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users can have equal access to information and functionality. For example, when a site … Read More

New Google’s version of Android SDK m5-rc14

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Android SDK m5-rc14 is now available for download, with new and improved features: New user interface Layout animations Geo-coding New media codecs Updated Eclipse plug-in (Source: Android Developers Blog) The developers say that they are still missing the change of … Read More