OK, there are all sorts of quality-control issues, and the logistics are daunting. But the concept is novel and exciting. "The World Wide Lexicon (WWL) project will need multilingual volunteers to download a software program. This will automatically detect when the computer user is less busy and ask them to translate a word or phrase." The results of the collected translations will be incorporated into a world translation database for use in other online applications. "It's a clever twist on distributed computing," says [Brian] McConnell. "In this case the computers are people's brains.
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