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Huda Sarfraz

cases of local language content development across developing asia, example from panl10n project: Pakistan Country Component. Huda Sarfraz Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. Project Overview. Identify learning areas

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Huda Sarfraz

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  1. cases of local language content development across developing asia, example from panl10n project: Pakistan Country Component Huda Sarfraz Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

  2. Project Overview • Identify learning areas • Develop competencies • Localize software • Develop training material • Plan training • Select schools and teachers • Deploy labs • Train teachers • Train students • Evaluate participants

  3. Content Development • Books developed for identified learning areas • Basic computer skills • Web browsing • Email • Instant messaging • Word processing • Graphics editing • Webpage development • Web content development by students and teachers trained through the program

  4. Training Books Development • Competencies developed for eighth-ninth grade students • Book content based on competencies • Written in Urdu by language specialists, not by technical team

  5. Content Development Tools • OpenOffice.org Writer • OpenOffice.org Draw • OmegaT for translation Sample OmegaT project

  6. Content Development Process • Guidelines developed for content creation • Language specialists trained by technical team on learning area • Competency developed by whole team, documented by technical team • TOC developed by language specialists • TOC reviewed by technical team • Content developed by language specialists • Content reviewed by technical team • Content updated by language specialist

  7. Pilot Training • Pilot training setup for seven local school students • Chapters assigned to each student • Some sections in the books were not covered during the training • Interview conducted with each student to get feedback about the book before publication Pilot training conducted at CRULP

  8. Pilot Training Results • Some of the Urdu used was too difficult for eighth grade students • Some of the examples used were not very exciting for the target group; interest was identified in entertainment, sports etc. • Some sections in the books were not needed by the students (e.g., advanced search in search engines)

  9. Development Issues • Licensing issues, content to be released under the Creative Commons license • Nastaleeq font not supported in all tools • PDFs not generated properly • Problems in exporting font

  10. Web Content Development • Teachers and students trained to develop simple web pages • Encouraged and motivated through inter-school web development competition at the end of the program • Content needs also being assessed during the project • School websites to be developed

  11. Dissemination • Project awareness through meetings with school administration • Distribution of project posters and fliers • Free distribution of books at schools selected for the project • Books also available online in PDF and ODT format • Web content developed during program to be deployed on project website Books distributed to students at schools

  12. Future Work • Publish 3 of remaining books • Conduct the webpage development training • Start collecting and deploying user-generated content

  13. Thank You

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