21.4172, Qs: Rosetta Project Seeks Volunteers for New Project

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Subject: 21.4172, Qs: Rosetta Project Seeks Volunteers for New Project

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Date: 19-Oct-2010
From: Laine Stranahan [laine at longnow.org]
Subject: Rosetta Project Seeks Volunteers for New Project
 

	
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:23:46
From: Laine Stranahan [laine at longnow.org]
Subject: Rosetta Project Seeks Volunteers for New Project

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If you have 10-30 minutes and a keyboard or a microphone, please 
consider making a submission to The Rosetta Project's latest 
volunteer-based linguistic documentation project:

http://www.rosettaproject.org/300-languages

The 300 Languages Project is a special effort by The Rosetta Project
(www.rosettaproject.org), part of The Long Now Foundation
(www.longnow.org), to begin the construction of a universal corpus of 
human language by collecting parallel text and audio in the world's 300 
most widely-spoken languages. The resulting collection will contain 
thousands of volunteer-contributed public domain text documents and 
audio recordings which will be made available to researchers and the 
public alike via The Internet Archive, a free online digital library.

The 300 Languages Project seeks to develop an extensible protocol 
and a set of scalable, low-cost (i.e., volunteer-based) methods and 
standards for language documentation via the building of a "seed 
corpus" - a corpus which starts small but is designed to grow.

The 300 Languages Project is collecting translations and recordings of
three important texts: the Swadesh List, the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights, and Genesis chapters 1-3. These texts were chosen 
primarily for usefulness in research (e.g., the Swadesh list) and 
breadth of existing translation (Genesis and the UDHR).

The 300 Languages Project is made possible through the support and
sponsorship of Distinguished Career Professor and speech technology 
expert Dr. James K. Baker and is conducted in partnership with the 
ALLOW initiative of the Center for Innovations in Speech and 
Language at theLanguage Technologies Institute. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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