The International Workshop on Language Preservation: An Experiment in Text Collection and Language Technology

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2013-10
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Bird, Steven
Chiang, David
Frowein, Friedel
Berez, Andrea L.
Eby, Mark
Hanke, Florian
Shelby, Ryan
Vaswani, Ashish
Wan, Ada
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University of Hawaii Press
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7
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155
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167
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With hundreds of endangered and under-documented languages, Papua New Guinea presents an enormous challenge to the documentary linguistics community. This article reports on a workshop held at the University of Goroka in May and June of 2012. The workshop aimed to collect written texts and their translations for several languages, while building local capacity through hands-on training, and improving our understanding of the appropriate use of technology. The majority of participants were mother tongue speakers who seek to preserve their languages through the preparation of written language resources.
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Papua New Guinea, International Workshop on Language Preservation, Language documentation, Endangered languages, Language technology, Text collection
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Bird, Steven, David Chiang, Friedel Frowein, Andrea L. Berez, Mark Eby, Florian Hanke, Ryan Shelby, Ashish Vaswani, Ada Wan. 2013. The International Workshop on Language Preservation: An Experiment in Text Collection and Language Technology. Language Documentation & Conservation. 7: 155-167.
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