Using the LARA platform to crowdsource a multilingual, multimodal Little Prince

We describe an ongoing project, in which informally organised international consortium is using the open source LARA platform to create multimodal annotated editions of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le petit prince multiple languages, so far French, English, Italian, Icelandic, Irish, Japanese, Polish, Farsi and Mandarin. versions book include integrated audio translations automatically generated lemma-based concordance, are freely available online. methods used construct various versions. In some cases, work for a given language was simply divided by type, typically with one person adding another recording audio. other we experimented crowdsourcing methods, splitting text into chapter-sized units distribute these annotators, then combining results at end. Finally, report initial classroom study, where French version intermediate-level Australian students French.