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Thus it is important that we create a common ground on how resources should
be shared. As we said earlier this should not be defined by the act of sharing but
by the outputs that can be created from the resources.
As an example, in South Africa, we estimate there are four Zulu morphological
analysers. This is clearly a waste of scarce resources in a language with limited
access to funds to advance the language. The reason there are four is that there
is no framework for sharing these resources. But ultimately it is because there
is no clear objective on how these resources and tools should impact on the
lives of real people. When it comes to tools for processing linguistic data, the
same logic applies. We really do need to learn how to share so that we can focus
on the work that impacts language speakers.
This Is a Wave and This Is You
If you look at the wave that is marginalised languages, those 6000 all crashing
down on us at once, then we all want to run away. But if we focus on riding the
wave then it could actually be quite fun.
We at Translate have realised that it is in some ways about changing our
thinking. We want to build solutions that meet the needs of language speakers.
But we’ve realised that sometimes we need to address other people languages
needs, and in so doing we create linguistic resources that we can employ to
address the needs of our marginalised languages.
For resource poor languages using modern technology to give oral literates the
resources and tools to be active e-literate participants is the type of thinking,
or wave riding, that is required.
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