After the 2010 Haiti earthquake , international aid workers desperately needed translation tools for communicating in Haitian Creole . Furthermore , international organizations had little idea whom to contact as translators . As an emergency measure , Carnegie Mellon University released data for its own research into the public domain . Microsoft Research and Google Translate implemented alpha version machine translators based on the Carnegie Mellon data
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
Haitian Creole