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“Softsourcing”, a new word to add to your vocabulary!
March 1, 2008 — translatorpowerIntroducing: The latest addition to the “outsourcing, crowdsourcing…” family.
It’s “softsourcing“, which according to Michael Martine’s definition means “people replaced by software” (See Michael’s article “If you can’t Blog it Don’t Do It” in his Remarkablogger)
The word is so new you won’t find it in Wikipedia, so new it’s only got 821 entries in Google (as opposed to 16,000,000 for “outsourcing” and 1,330,000 for “crowdsourcing”), and 621 entries in Yahoo Search (as opposed to 197,000,000 for “outsourcing” and 3,470,000 for “crowdsourcing”).
The word is new but it’s a word to watch because it’s got some future, especially in our profession: Machine Translation is a typical case of softsourcing and it’s slowly but surely gaining ground (See Fast-learning computer translates from four languages)
Have a nice weekend!
A.M.Sall
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