Learning to use machine translation on the Translation Commons Learn portal (2018)

Abstract: We describe the Learn portal of Translation Commons (TC), a self-managed community of volunteer translators community aimed at sharing tools, resources and initiatives for the translation community as a whole. Members are encouraged to upload and share their free resources on the platform and to create free courses and tutorials. Specifically there are no educational material on machine translation yet and we invite experts to contribute.

## translation commons a self-managed volunteer community, translation commons (tc) is a nonprofit 2 established to share tools, resources and initiatives that unite the language community and encourage cross-functional collaboration. tc fosters collaboration, responds to the needs of the people using endangered and minority languages and is targeted to the needs of language service professionals and students by bridging the gap between academia and industry. ## the learn portal learn is the tc portal for all community learning activities. the portal includes a learning center with learning materials and courses, a translation hub compiling valuable free resources for translators, and a section hosting a revival of the ecolo (electronic content localisation) translation training initiative, spearheaded by an 1 © 2018 the authors. this article is licensed under a creative commons 3.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution, cc-by-nd. 2 http://translationcommons.org eu-funded consortium of european universities. learn contains almost no educational material on machine translation yet; we invite experts to contribute.