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| Title | Language Technology Challenges of a ‘Small’ Language (Catalan) |
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| Authors | Maite Melero, Gemma Boleda, Montse Cuadros, Cristina España-Bonet, Lluís Padró, Martí Quixal, Carlos Rodríguez and Roser Saurí |
| Abstract | In this paper, we present a brief snapshot of the state of affairs in computational processing of Catalan and the initiatives that are starting to take place in an effort to bring the field a step forward, by making a better and more efficient use of the already existing resources and tools, by bridging the gap between research and market, and by establishing periodical meeting points for the community. In particular, we present the results of the First Workshop on the Computational Processing of Catalan, which succeeded in putting together a fair representation of the research in the area, and received attention from both the industry and the administration. Aside from facilitating communication among researchers and between developers and users, the Workshop provided the organizers with valuable information about existing resources, tools, developers and providers. This information has allowed us to go a step further by setting up a “harvesting” procedure which will hopefully build the seed of a portal-catalogue-observatory of language resources and technologies in Catalan. |
| Topics | Endangered languages, LR Infrastructures and Architectures, Other |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{MELERO10.628, author = {Maite Melero and Gemma Boleda and Montse Cuadros and Cristina España-Bonet and Lluís Padró and Martí Quixal and Carlos Rodríguez and Roser Saurí}, title = {Language Technology Challenges of a ‘Small’ Language (Catalan)}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Mike Rosner and Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |