Basic language resources for diverse Asian languages: a streamlined approach for resource creation

Authors:
Heather Simpson;Kazuaki Maeda;Christopher Cieri
Affiliations:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Venue:
ALR7 Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Language Resources
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The REFLEX-LCTL (Research on English and Foreign Language Exploitation-Less Commonly Taught Languages) program, sponsored by the United States government, was an effort in simultaneous creation of basic language resources and technologies for under-resourced languages, with the aim to enrich sparse areas in language technology resources and encourage new research. We were tasked to produce basic language resources for 8 Asian languages: Bengali, Pashto, Punjabi, Tamil, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu and Uzbek, and 5 languages from Europe and Africa, and distribute them to research and development also funded by the program. This paper will discuss the streamlined approach to language resource development we designed to support simultaneous creation of multiple resources for multiple languages.