Re: [Openadaptxt-linguists] New Language

[Chris B. <cbi...@gm...>]

Sounds ok, just macrons with this first language. Is there an easy way
to seperate words from the corpus so I can build a wordlist from it
and avoid repetition? Long weekend here so I haven't had a chance to
ask my programmers.
Regards
ChrisB

On 10/16/12, Jens Christensen <jch...@ke...> wrote:
> 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
>
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