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

From: maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 18:17:06 MET

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    On Mar 9 2006, 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).

    I like your term much better (and I totally empathize with the problem of
    explaining "low density").

      Mike Maxwell
      CASL



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