User:Francis Tyers

There are at least two other more serious problems for endangered languages, more acute than just lack of mother-tongue transmission. There are languages whose last fluent speakers are already gone or are about to go. At a meeting at Glorieta near Santa Fe, New Mexico, a few months ago, we had actually the last living speaker of one of the languages come. It was a very sad experience for everyone, not just for that woman. And perhaps the saddest thing is that she cannot even talk to her sister anymore, who was the next-to-last speaker before she recently died. She can not call up anybody. The only person for her to talk to is a linguist and that is no fun.[1]

Translations

• DIM EISIAU → #ZERO #WANT

Scratchpad

• http://mokk.bme.hu/resources/hunalign — GPL text aligner.
• http://www.services.gov.za/en-za/Home.htm — Available in 11 official languages.
• http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/ — German-English dictionary (GPL) ~100,000 lemmata.
• http://wt.jrc.it/lt/Acquis/ — Multilingual Euro-corpus (Public domain) 20+ languages.
• http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html — corpora
• http://www.hakikatkitabevi.com/ — text available for aligning in many languages (incl. Turkish, Azerbaijani).
  • http://www.harunyahya.org/ — related to above.
• http://natura.di.uminho.pt/wiki/index.cgi?NATools — NATools is a workbench for parallel corpora processing. It includes a sentence aligner and a Probabilistic Translation Dictionary extractor, a word aligner and a set of other tools to study the aligned parallel corpora.
• http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/homepage/default — Newspaper in all the Balkan languages, public domain.

Humour and poetry

<bogdan> spectie: we want more spectish poetry!
<spectie> haha :D
<bogdan> spectie: I had not heard any bad non-rhyming non-sensical poetry in a long time and I miss it!
<spectie> s/bad/good
<spectie> bogdan2005, ok
<spectie> here's a variation on a popular theme:
<spectie> its called "Machine translation"
<spectie> SILENCE PLEASE
<spectie> ...
<spectie> machine translation
<spectie>   sometimes it works
<spectie> sometimes it doesn't
<spectie> ...
<zocky> machine translation / sometimes it works / manchmal he don't

Murat: kovayla bira içerim, ama sen bilmezsin. yarın gelir misin?
Murat: vedrəyle pivə içirəm, ama sen bilməzsən. yarın gələrmisən?
Murat: I drink beer with the bucket, but you don't know it. Do you come tomorrow?
Murat: a poem by msalperen

Todo

• Some kind of generic web verb conjugator which uses lttoolbox, to increase the valuability of having Apertium style data.
• Some kind of generic analyser, with human readable output — see work on faroese.
• Investigate if SFST may be used as an analyser for more complicated language morphology, and how it may be included into an Apertium pipeline.