Groups interested in translations

From Translate Science

This page lists group we know of that work on translations. Feel free to add the ones we missed.

Translation groups

Language diversity groups

  • Masakhane is a grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans.

Education

Translation part of mission

Members of Translate Science

  • AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research and stimulates the translation of scientific articles and abstracts. About 2000 local languages are spoken in Africa.
  • The consultancy group Access 2 Perspectives works on language diversity.
  • Whose Knowledge: A global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.
  • The Open Climate Knowledge is working on a WikiData-based system that helps with reading difficult text by translating important terms.
  • The open post-publication Grassroots Review system plans to link to available translations on the review pages.

Translation services

  • Commercial translation services (not specially recommended ones, just ones we happened to find).