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Jeff
ALLEN
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Subject:
ELL:
how
much
to
spend
on
language
technologies
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At
12:23
02/04/99
-0800,
Scott
D. wrote:
>On
Thu,
1
Apr
1999,
David
Harris
wrote:
>
>>
Presumably,
the
Navajos
or
the
Cherokees
could
figure
out
a
way
to
raise
>>
that
kind
of
money. But
the
money
could
presumably
be
put
to
better
use
on
>>
improving
the
living
conditions
of
tribe
members.
Scott
D. wrote:
>And,
if
they
or
any
other
tribe
had
$100,000
to
spend
on
language
>maintenance,
there
are
much
better
ways
it
could
be
spent.
No
disagreement
with
this
point.
>It's
a
ridiculously
unrealistic
amount
for
most
of
the
communities
>that
I'm
in
contact
with
or
know
anything
about.
<snip>
>
Even
the
best-funded
>programs
I
know
of
couldn't
spent
$100,000
at
a
shot
without
>giving
up
half
or
more
of
their
language
maintenance
activities
for
>a
year.
Comments
that
I
have
received
from
many
Haitians
regarding
my
computational
research
and
development
of
non-commercial
applications
(OCR,
spelling
checkers,
machine
translation,
speech
recognition)
for
their
language
is
that
those
in
the
country
are
probably
more
concerned
with
funding
the
construction
of
waterways,
roads,
and
development
of
crops
than
spending
money
on
the
standardization
of
the
language.
This
seems
to
line
up
with
Scott's
comments
for
the
most
part.
But
then,
TeleHaiti
invited
me
for
a
television
interview
during
my
last
trip
to
Haiti.
The
interview
aired
the
same
evening
and
the
next
morning.
This
aroused
a
lot
of
interest
for
the
Haitian
Kreyol
language
that
is
spoken
by
95%
of
the
population,
is
considered
to
be
a
co-official
language
with
French,
but
the
government
does
nothing
to
support
it.
What
I
did,
and
would
like
to
see
continue,
is
the
training
of
Haitians
on
such
computer
systems
so
that
they
can
continue
the
work
themselves,
possibly
with
external
funding,
and
develop
such
projects
into
something
that
becomes
Haitian-owned,
rather
than
continued
to
be
identified
with
the
outsiders
like
myself.
Best,
Jeff
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Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) &
European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europ.enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30
mailto:jeff at elda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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