Heritage: Technology: Creole-related Software (Portuguese- and French-relat ed Creoles)

[Scott McGinnis]

Heritage Languages Listserve
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MIT2 Demos Creole Software at Technology Conferences in Greece

Marilyn Mason, President of Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2),
has
just returned from Athens, Greece, where she demonstrated MIT2's
orthography
conversion software at a Workshop entitled "Developing language
resources for
minority languages: reusability and strategic priorities" (May 30th), as
well
as the Second International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation
(LREC2000), which was held 31 May - 2 June.

Her papers ("The State of the Art of French Creole Language Resource
Engineering" and "Issues from corpus analysis that have influenced the
on-going development of various Haitian Creole text- and speech-based
NLP
systems and applications") have both been published in the Workshop /
Conference Proceedings.

Following on the heels of similar presentations at two technology
conferences
in Seattle, Washington (USA) a few weeks earlier, considerable interest
has
been stirred within the natural language processing (NLP), machine
translation (MT), translation memory (TM), language engineering (LE),
and
language resources (LR) communities around the globe.

More and more, MIT2 is being recognized as a significant player in the
arena
of porting sparse data / minority languages (especially Pidgins and
Creoles)
to other language technology tools, such as spell checkers, machine
translators, speech-to-text and text-to-speech applications, etc.

Located in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), MIT2 fosters research and
development
activity on behalf of French-, Portuguese-, and English-related Creoles,
as
well as other minority and vernacular languages.

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617-247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617-262-8923
E-mail: mit2usa at aol.com
MIT2 Web Page: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html