Re: [Corpora-List] Re: Minor(ity) Language

From: Steven Krauwer (steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 15:54:26 MET

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    Ed Kenschaft wrote:

    > In my circle, the most common term might be "scarce-resource
    > languages". (We got tired of explaining to people that the meaning of
    > "low density" had nothing to do with density.) The term gets at the
    > idea that a language might be spoken by a lot of people, but still not
    > have a lot of computational resources available (e.g. Hindi, Urdu).

    My favourite term is "Technologically Challenged Languages".
    See e.g. Justus Roux in his presentation at LREC2004
    (http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/doc/presentation/Roux.pdf)

    Steven 

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