Arabic-L:GEN:Need Levantine Native Speakers for hand held translator

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Date:  18 Jun 2002
From:Bushra Zawaydeh <bzawayde at bbn.com>
Subject:Need Levantine Native Speakers for hand held translator

BBN Technologies is working on a project to build a hand-held translator
device that will allow limited two-way communication between an English
speaker and speakers of other languages, such as Arabic, Spanish, or
Chinese.  The device is intended to be used by field workers in
developing
countries who may need to provide refugee assistance or disaster relief.

To train the system to understand native speakers, we need to record
native
speakers of Levantine colloquial Arabic (native speakers of Arabic from
Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, or Syria) who will play the part of
host-country
residents answering made-up questions in the domain. Subjects will remain
anonymous, and will be paid $40 for 45 - 60 minutes of their time.  The
recording will take place on the MIT campus or could be arranged
individually.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to Bushra Zawaydeh
(bzawaydeh at hotmail.com and bushra at bbn.com).

Thank you

Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.
BBN Technologies
tel (617-873-2018)
bzawaydeh at hotmail.com
bushra at bbn.com

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