The first million Coursera Words translated into Russian

It was March, 24th, when ABBYY Language Services, an official partner of Coursera, launched the large-scale project to translate Coursera educational lections into Russian. The case proved to be successful, totaling in one million words translated in just three months. Almost 5,000 volunteers joined the project. <link http: coursera.abbyy-ls.com en>Coursera is an online educational project founded by Stanford University professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. The project provides free online access to courses of the best educational institutions in the world. Most courses are currently available only in English. Ivan Smolnikov, CEO of ABBYY Language Services, says: “Our project is based on a unified cloud environment for translation automation - SmartCAT. It offers the opportunity to benefit from the most advanced linguistic technology, such as translation memory, terminology quality assurance, and machine translation post-editing, without any special knowledge or training. There is also a dedicated panel for context understanding in the translation editor, in which users can view the video fragments from the lectures they are working on. All this helps our volunteers improve both translation quality and their knowledge of English, opening the way for professional growth.” "Reaching one million translated words is a tremendous milestone for the ABBYY Language Services-Coursera community,” Eli Bildner, Product Manager for Localization at Coursera, says. “We can't thank our Russian-speaking friends enough for their commitment to making great educational content available across linguistic and geographic borders.” Translation of Coursera into Russian is the first crowdsourcing project of such a great scale in Russia. ABBYY Language Services is leveraging the experience gained from the Coursera translation project and use of the SmartCAT multi-access tool to implement a new platform for providing the fastest professional translation in the world. <link http: coursera.abbyy-ls.com en>coursera.abbyy-ls.com/en