Re: [Openadaptxt-linguists] New Language

[Jens C. <jch...@ke...>]

Hi Chris,
Once you have the dictionary files ready we can have a test dictionary ready within a day or two, depending on any issues that we come across of course. Given that the Polynesian languages are relatively simple (at least technically speaking) I don't think there should be too many problems.

The only thing that can hold us back is if a language has some completely unsupported feature which will have to be developed first (as was the case for the Gaelic languages), but I can't immediately see that for the Polynesian languages (at least not from looking at Wikipedia :-).

Cheers,
Jens

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Bauer [mailto:fi...@ak...]
Sent: 15 October 2012 11:01
To: Chris Bickers
Cc: Jens Christensen; ope...@li...
Subject: Re: [Openadaptxt-linguists] New Language

The Gaelics started in July 2011 but before you pass out, we had some
language specific problems (Gaelic has "weird" stuff around prefixes
like h- t- n-) which required some development work. I think Polynesian
languages will be much faster as they tend only to have a macron at most
but I'd say it depends on how many "special requirements" the language
has and how long you take testing.

Michael

15/10/2012 10:51, sgrìobh Chris Bickers:
> Excellent Jens, nice to meet you and great to be here, Michael has
> already given me some pointers on how to get started, I'm cleaning up
> a corpus and should have the first language to submit in a couple of
> days. What sort of timeframes would I be looking at before I have
> something to download and use in the community?
> Regards
> ChrisB