Aya e-mail ti kang Mikihiro, ngeunaan aya hiji bule amrik, Kevin Scannel Cenah menta bantuan ka sundanese speaker.ieu e-mailna.
I am a researcher at Saint Louis University in the United States. I work on developing open source language technology (spell checkers, automatic translation systems, etc.) for minority languages and languages with limited technological resources. I've worked in collaboration with groups of speakers of almost 40 languages over the past 10 years. Here is one of my projects: http://borel.slu.edu/crubadan/ I have some interest in working on Indonesian languages - as you know, some have millions of speakers but only Indonesian itself has any non-trivial software available. Having read with great interest your paper online (www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/~moriyama/ <http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/%7Emoriyama/article/Akademia.pdf> article/Akademia.pdf), I wonder if you would be able to put me in contact with some Sundanese speakers who might be interested in helping with this work. I've made a start on my own - I have a web crawler that is gathering all the text it can find on the web that is written in Sundanese. We use these texts for statistical purposes. You might have some interest in seeing what it has found so far: http://borel.slu.edu/obair/su. <http://borel.slu.edu/obair/su.html> html I would need a native speaker to look through these documents and verify they are mostly Sundanese. Plus, if there are important web sites the crawler has missed, I'd like to add those to the corpus. Any advice or contacts you could provide would be deeply appreciated. Best regards Kevin Scannell
