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integration mentioned prior). For a language they do not support, you should
develop a translation module which can be plugged into a Web browser. It is not
easy, but it is worth it. Even though translation accuracy is not quite good, it
is strongly required to link the indigenous community into global community.
Lastly, we need to collect and analyze statistics on the web content. It can be
conducted by crawling web data, and after analyzing, it can be used to rebuild
a directory of minority users. It can be used to build a corpus and linguistic
resources for minority languages including multimedia. Crubadan is an
example module designed for this purpose by Dr. Scannell. It acts as a web
crawler which gets a small set of seed texts, and forwards a query including
these seeds to Google. Then, Google returns a list of documents potentially
written in the same language. It is also performed by Google open APIs for web
search. You may refer to this URL, http://borel.slu.edu/crubadan/ index.html.
4. Conclusion
We need to provide a communication model which can support solidarity
within local community as well as mutual exchange with global community.
At present, web-based participation is definitely a feasible option option,
and gateway service with following features may be considerable. I would
like to finish with this saying by Nancy Hornberger from the University
Of Pennsylvania, “Language revitalization is not about bringing a language
back, but bringing it forward.” I believe that our efforts and trials for minority
languages will strengthen their future.
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