| Title |
EMILLE, A 67-Million Word Corpus of Indic Languages: Data Collection, Mark-up and Harmonisation |
| Authors |
Paul Baker (Dept. Linguistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK) Andrew Hardie (Dept. Linguistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK) Tony McEnery (Dept. Linguistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK) Hamish Cunningham (Dept. Computer Science, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK) Rob Gaizauskas (Dept. Computer Science, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK) |
| Session |
WO7: LRs For Minority Languages |
| Abstract |
The paper describes developments to date on the EMILLE Project (Enabling Minority Language Engineering) being carried out at the Universities of Lancaster and Sheffield. EMILLE was established to construct a 67 million word corpus of South Asian languages. In addition to undertaking this corpus construction, the project has had to address a number of related issues in the context of establishing a language engineering (LE) environment for South Asian language processing, such as translating 8-bit language data into Unicode and producing a number of basic LE tools. The development of tools on EMILLE has contributed to the on-going development of the LE architecture GATE. |
| Keywords |
Emille |
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