[Mt-list] NLP for (African) "pi-languages", not "minority languages"

[Christian Boitet]

Hi,     25/8/06

At 20:53 +0100 24/08/06, Francis Tyers wrote:
This paper was at LREC this year on Amharic:

Saba Amsalu and Sissy Fissaha Adafre "Machine Translation for Amharic:
Where we areE".

Daniel Yacob was also there talking about Unicode issues for minority
languages,

Please don't use the term "minority language", 
which is a bit deprecating and quite often plain 
wrong, but rather the terms
- "pi-language" (poorly computerized language), 
proposed by V.Berment in his PhD,
- or "under-resourced languages" (as in a WS at TALN-05).

here is some work he is doing on Ethiopic script:

http://libeth.sourceforge.net/

If I can think of anything else I'll let you know.

Fran

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 11:37 -0400, Don Osborn wrote:
 I have updated a very modest presentation of some info relevant to MT in
 Africa at http://www.bisharat.net/Trans/ . There is not much there, so I
 would like to request information/recommendations for other links relating
 to MT in Africa and in African languages wherever. (The page also needs some
 reworking, but I'm mainly concerned now with content.)

 TIA

 Don Osborn
 Bisharat.net
 > PanAfrican Localisation project

Best,

Ch.Boitet

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