Re: [Mt-list] Public release of Haitian Creole language data byCarnegie Mellon

[Robert Frederking]

Hi Vadim,
   Yes, French is the principal written language, but most of the 
population only speaks Creole (and is illiterate).  We ourselves are 
indeed looking at making speech-based systems (and the rarest part of 
the data may be the speech data).  There may also be unforeseen benefits 
to the data being available.  For example, it appears that Doctors 
Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) may make use of the bilingual 
medical phrases as-is, through Translators Without Borders (Traducteurs 
sans Frontières).  So who knows how this may help.  Cheers.

   Bob
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Vadim Berman wrote:
Hi Robert,

These are commendable efforts, but isn't French the principal written 
language in Haiti? Or you are talking about a speech to speech system?

Best regards,
Vadim

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Frederking" <r...@cs.cmu.edu>
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Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 6:49 AM
Subject: [Mt-list] Public release of Haitian Creole language data 
byCarnegie Mellon


The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) of Carnegie Mellon 
University's
School of Computer Science (CMU SCS) is making publicly available the
Haitian Creole spoken and text data that we have collected or 
produced. We
are providing this data with minimal restrictions in order to
allow others to develop language technology for Haiti, in parallel 
with our
own efforts to help with this crisis. Since organizing the data in a 
useful
fashion is not instantaneous, and more text data is currently being 
produced
by collaborators, we will be publishing the data incrementally on the 
web,
as it becomes available.  To access the currently available data, please
visit the website at  http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/haitian/

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