Building Translator Repertoire Across a Humanitarian Translation App: Translingual Practice and Tarjimly

2024/06/29 by Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar
Arts and Humanities · Health Professions · #Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare #Translation Studies and Practices

paper · doi:10.1080/10572252.2024.2372784

openalex publication_date 2024/06/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

This article creates a crowdsourced database for Tarjimly, a humanitarian translation app, based on recent technical communication and translingual research. The humanitarian translation app is a unique technological site that recruits volunteer translators to interpret for migrants and refugees. Tarjimly’s privacy policy prevents translators from building their translingual repertoire across the platform. This database allows translators to crowdsource their colloquial interpretations so that others may learn about regional, cultural, and dialectal translations from Tarjimly’s humanitarian audiences.

Citations

• Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities
• Translingual Practice as Spatial Repertoires: Expanding the Paradigm beyond Structuralist Orientations
• A call for critical reflection on the localisation agenda in humanitarian action

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• Accurate and Scalable Matching of Translators to Displaced Persons for Overcoming Language Barriers
• Local Translation Services for Neglected Languages
• Massively Multilingual Text Translation For Low-Resource Languages
• Design of a Community-based Translation Center
• Designing of a Community-based Translation Center