16.1441, Qs: Arabic Generator; Films on Endangered Languages

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-1441. Thu May 05 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.1441, Qs: Arabic Generator; Films on Endangered Languages

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1)
Date: 05-May-2005
From: Ahmed Hafez < scientist01eg at yahoo.com >
Subject: Arabic Generator 

2)
Date: 04-May-2005
From: Ole Stig Andersen < osa at olestig.dk >
Subject: Films and Documentaries on Endangered Languages 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 20:41:08
From: Ahmed Hafez < scientist01eg at yahoo.com >
Subject: Arabic Generator 
 

I am a researcher working on an English - Arabic Transfer MT system.  Could
you guide me to a suitable Arabic generator?  

My Research is based on the transfer approach to MT (English-Arabic). The
reseach is divided into three stages: analysis, transfer and synthesis. The
analysis is based on the HPSG with LKB parser. The Transfer stage is based on
semantic (MRS)and syntactic transfer. I need for the synthesis a generator that
can take the output of the transfer stage in order to generate the Arabic target
language equivalent of the source language sentence.

Best -
Ahmad 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (ABV)



	
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Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 20:41:23
From: Ole Stig Andersen < osa at olestig.dk >
Subject: Films and Documentaries on Endangered Languages 

	

Dear list

I am looking for TV documentaries and films about Endangered Languages, or
where language endangerment or revitalization is part of the story told. I
am only aware of two such productions: ''Vanishing Voices'' on Chulym
(Turkic)  by American PBS and ''De lêste lûden fan in taal'' (''The last
sounds of a language'') by Frisian Television, also on Siberian lgs, I
believe. But surely there must be (many?) more?

I will post a summary.
Thank you for your help.


Ole Stig Andersen, Copenhagen
osa at olestig.dk
http://www.olestig.dk 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


 



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