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Echee, Please go to www.youtube.com. You would find some good Igbo gospel songs AND videos! Here are some examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr3kp-adUpgOnce this opens up, look at the right hand cornner for more titles. Jisie ike! Chinedu Uchechukwu >From: QT - Echee <qtopic+17-tCcDxVXHgQxN@quicktopic.com> >Reply-To: QT topic 17-tCcDxVXHgQxN <qtopic+17-tCcDxVXHgQxN@quicktopic.com> >To: QT topic subscribers <qtopic+subs@quicktopic.com> >Subject: Igbo language and ICT >Date: 21 Apr 2007 05:54:36 -0700 > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/< replied-to message removed by QT > |
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The Centre for Text Technology (CTexT) at the North-West University (South Africa) are developing data for several African languages, viz. Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Wolof and Yoruba. The developed data will be used in proofing tools such as spelling checkers and grammar checkers. These tools are important human language technology resources that enable speakers of the language to preserve and promote their language and culture while benefitting from Information Technology advancements.
This project is a part of Microsoft’s Local Language Program, a global initiative to provide desktop software and tools to their customers by collaborating with local experts (governments, universities and other interested parties). Their aim is to help build a robust local IT economy to:
- Help bridge the language and digital divide between developed and emerging markets.
- Help preserve language and culture. Help technology impact language and culture in a positive way.
- Help maintain the connections between communities.
In order to conduct this project successfully, we are currently sourcing any available resources, most notably electronic resources (word lists, corpora, etc.) and people (experts and assistants) to contribute to the project.
Should you have access to any resource, or if you could suggest someone who would be interested in being a subcontractor for us, please contact me: Sulene.Pilon@nwu.ac.za and provide us with a broad idea of your expertise/resources, as well as contact information (especially a telephone number and time when we can call you, if necessary).
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
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12-15-2007 10:28 AM ET (US)
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The One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC) has a page for people who want to work on localization at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle#Sign-up . For languages like Igbo not yet in the table, it looks like you will have to add appropriate rows in order to enter your name. Note link to their page on Igbo. Don Osborn Bisharat.net PanAfriL10n.org |
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Hallo Don, The registration and admin are not clear at all. SOmetimes it is as if some of the people involved in some of these projects just write for themselves or people like them (whoever that might be). There is NO SIMPLE WAY of registration or administring a localization, apart from simply Well, I have registered with the pootle localization site and hope to read from them. All the best. Chinedu... ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:28:51 +0000 > Subject: Igbo language and ICT > From: qtopic-17-tCcDxVXHgQxN@quicktopic.com > To: qtopic-subs@quicktopic.com > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm0...STRIPMIME_JOINLINES < replied-to message removed by QT > |
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Hi Chindeu, I'm not sure how it works on their site. Apparently there are some sort of permissions involved? (Of course one can register on their wiki like one would with Wikipedia, but that's another matter.) You can put Igbo and your name in the signup table, but I don't know if that implies any recognition of your initiative. And although I know of some names in the hierarchy of OLPC I am not clear on who is managing translation of the interface. Maybe on the "localization" list mentioned on the page there would be more answers. Let us know how it goes. Don
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