Language selection
From LING073
Languages you may not choose
- No languages supported by Google translate, however poor-quality.
- No languages supported by Apertium. Check the following places:
- full list of language pairs
- all stable language modules
- incubator - includes some language modules not in the above
- No languages supported by Giellatekno.
Places to look for corpora
- Start by seeing what a Google search for resources on your language turns up.
- List of Wikipedias by language - you probably want at least 1000 articles for it to be useful for this class, but somewhat smaller wikipedias can also work if there are other resources
- Institute for Bible Translation - mostly languages of Russia
- bible.is - a whole bunch of bible translations
- If you can figure out enough of your language to do an internet search for resources in it, you may be able to find news, entertainment, or informational websites.
- Try a library search for literature in the language. You may have to know both some of the language and how American and Western European libraries have historically transliterated it. You have essentially the whole world's library resources available to you through ILL, if you do it right.
- If your language is particularly small, there may be nothing or nearly nothing available in the language. If you can't find any print materials either, consider choosing another language.
