CROWDSOURCING TRANSLATION AS COMPUTER-SUPPORTED TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN MULTILINGUAL EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT

The paper outlines the crowd sourcing translation phenomenon, using some examples, highlights the approaches to study the above activities, mentions the most known crowd sourcing translation projects, specifies crowd sourcing translation key features, basing on the comparative analysis of various crowd sourcing translation projects. Further on the crowd sourcing translation research methodology is outlined that accumulates a set of approaches. The paper goes on argue that crowd sourcing translation practice can be seen as a tool for collaborative human development in multilingual European environment.