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The BLARK Matrix and its relation to the language resources situation for the Celtic languages

The BLARK Matrix and its relation to the language resources situation for the Celtic languages. Delyth Prys Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr University of Wales, Bangor. The target audience of the BLARK is: researchers (both in academia and in industry), and educators

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The BLARK Matrix and its relation to the language resources situation for the Celtic languages

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  1. The BLARK Matrix and its relation to the language resources situation for the Celtic languages Delyth Prys Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr University of Wales, Bangor

  2. The target audience of the BLARK is: • researchers (both in academia and in industry), and educators • policy makers and organisations

  3. Welsh Language Technologies 1992 Welsh Language Act 1993 Terminology Spelling and Centre Grammar Checker 1998 Welsh Assembly Government 2000 NAACLT Conference, Limerick 2001 e-Welsh Unit founded 2003 + Speech Technology + Place-name Centre 2006 Welsh Language Board IT Strategy 2006 e-Welsh>Language Technologies Unit

  4. LR Activities • Terminology Standardization • 23 projects • Lexical projects • English/Welsh, Irish/Welsh, digitization • Language tools • spelling, grammar checkers, hyphenators • Place-name archives • historical, contemporary • Speech Technology • speech processing resources for Welsh and Irish • Computer-assisted language learning • CDs and web-based e.g. BBCs’ LearnWelsh web-site

  5. [Please imagine knight in shining armour galloping across screen carrying BLARK banner]

  6. Celtic Community • Common linguistic heritage • Common socio-political situation • Some common pan-Celtic institutions • Grant possibilities • Celtic is sexy!

  7. Celtic overview

  8. States & Languages

  9. BLARK Recipe • Applications (e.g. CALL, access control) • Modules (e.g. morphological analysis, speech synthesis) • Language data (e.g. data sets, descriptors)

  10. Available Written Data

  11. Available Spoken Data

  12. Conclusions • BLARK not only good but desirable • Develop Pre-Blark in order to be realistic • Also look for other solutions in data-poor environments • Archive and store all possible data • Educate and train • Mobilise wider academic community • Lobby policy makers

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