[Lexicog] Kamusi launches multilingual dictionary platform

[Martin Benjamin]

Today we are launching the new http://kamusi.org/ with beta data in 13 
new languages, including these from Africa: Gusii, Hehe, Kinyarwanda, 
Luganda, Pulaar, Setswana, Songhay, and Yeyi. This will be the 
dictionary of the future, linking concepts between languages in ways 
that have never before been attempted.

Kamusi began with Swahili, and went multilingual in response to a 
request from Rwanda. All the programming has taken place in Africa. Now 
we're proud to export globally too, today adding Spanish, French, 
Romanian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese! You can get a sense of the 
system in action by going to 
http://kamusi.org/kamusi-dictionary-terms-first-100-words and clicking 
through some of the links among concepts in our demo data set.

Or you can go to YouTube and watch this street video from Nairobi: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjQv2LW_Jvk

The Kamusi platform is designed to handle any language in a flexible and 
comprehensive manner. Please get in touch if you want to talk about how 
you can bring your language into the system.

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Dr. Martin Benjamin
Executive Director, Kamusi Project International
http://kamusi.org


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