Re: [Mt-list] Computers & translation in Africa / involving African languages

2006-08-24 Thread Francis Tyers
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Re: [Mt-list] NLP for (African) "pi-languages", not "minority languages"

2006-08-25 Thread Francis Tyers
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 17:12 +0200, Christian Boitet wrote: > 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: > >W

Re: [OT] Terminology (RE: [Mt-list] NLP for (African) "pi-languages", not "minority languages")

2006-08-25 Thread Francis Tyers
> though we wouldn't think to call it, or Spanish or English, etc. As Francis > puts it, "situational" minority languages. But that just shows how dependent > the term is on context. To avoid taking credit for this, I took the term from Peter Trudgill's paper, "Ausbau sociolinguistics and the per

Re: [Mt-list] FW: translation software

2007-10-23 Thread Francis Tyers
Could you not just run the legacy version of MacOS in a virtual machine (e.g. VMWare or something) with this software, or if its so old maybe one of the emulators they have around. Fran On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 19:54 +0100, Wigg, J D wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone help Roger? > > > _

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

2010-01-21 Thread Francis Tyers
El dj 21 de 01 de 2010 a les 14:49 -0500, en/na Robert Frederking va escriure: > 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

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

2010-01-22 Thread Francis Tyers
-- Could you confirm if that clause means that the acknowledgement should be _clearly visible_ to _every recipient_ or would it suffice to be visible after inspecting the source code? Thanks for your help in this and best regards, Francis Tyers El dj 21 de 01 de 2010 a les 22:59 -0500, en/na

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

2010-01-23 Thread Francis Tyers
heir data freely available. > What happened to common sense? I think CMU's initiative should be > commended. > > Job van Zuijlen > > > From: Robert Frederking > Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 16:32 > To: Francis Tyers > Cc: mt-list@eamt.org > Subject: Re: [Mt-l

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

2010-01-23 Thread Francis Tyers
companies won't > touch anything that's under GPL, so I don't think that's a solution. > We don't want to exclude commercial entities. > > Bob > > Francis Tyers wrote: > > First of all, thanks to CMU for releasing the data. I've no doubt it >

[Mt-list] Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-23 Thread Francis Tyers
gt; Robert Frederking wrote: > > Well, my understanding is that, unfortunately, most companies won't > > touch anything that's under GPL, so I don't think that's a solution. We > > don't want to exclude commercial entities. > > > >Bob > &

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

2010-01-23 Thread Francis Tyers
El ds 23 de 01 de 2010 a les 11:27 +0100, en/na Jeff Allen va escriure: > All, > > Can we please end this discussion about nitpicking over licensing and > potential > lawsuits. Choosing the right licence is important. > As Bob and Alon have clearly said, this licensing statement has been used f