Alchemy Translations

Introduction

In this project, we will be collecting 3 types of written text:

✓ Emails
✓ SMS-style text
✓ Notes

Includes formal, friendly and informal elements. Do not include illegal, criminal, pornographic or violent information, or personal information that involves personal privacy. Topically balanced and culturally representative for the target locale Fluent/native speaker text - resource can be located anywhere as long as the text is in the required locale.

Working process

1) Certifications needed: YES – will be specified later.
2) You will need to collect real-life texts in the form of emails, notes and SMS.
3) You will need to upload the texts one by one in our Oneforma webapp, specific to the language and variant.

Requirements

Please read these requirements carefully to ensure your uploaded materials are up to standard.

General requirements:

✓ Content cannot be translated from other languages using tools or generated by AI.
✓ All content needs to have been originally created in the relevant language.
✓ All content is meaningful, makes sense and is NOT similar or generated from templates.
Content must not violate laws and regulations.

Contect description:
Email - Email messages written by an individual to another individual or group (not marketing emails). Emails should contain a subject and body text.
Conversational SMS-style text - Conversational SMS-style text (iMessage, WhatsApp, WeChat, etc.) between two individuals, including metadata that distinguishes participants and the temporal ordering of messages.
Notes - Notes or “prose” that is representative of social media posts, journal entries, essays, etc. (paragraph level).

For all type of content no real PII should be contained in the data. Fictional PII is OK. Resources can modify PII by adding fake info or directly delete PII if this does not affect the content.

See the full guides below for more information:

Polaris Text Collection Participant Guide_v1.2
Polaris Data Collection Guide to improve quality
Adaptation FR-CA Polaris Text Collection Guide
Review and Adaptation Guidelines
Payment information : Payment information for translators