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African languages in a digital age [[electronic resource] ] : challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing / / Don Osborn
| African languages in a digital age [[electronic resource] ] : challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing / / Don Osborn |
| Autore | Osborn Donald Zhang |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (167 p.) |
| Disciplina | 496.0285 |
| Soggetto topico |
African languages
Computational linguistics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-57812-X
9786612578120 1-55250-473-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction. 2. Background. Importance of African languages and implications for ICT. What is localisation? Overlapping regional contexts: localisation where? Who localises? What is the current state of localisation across the African region? -- 3. Introducing 'localisation ecology.' An ecological perspective on the environment for localisation. The PLETES model. Dynamic complexes within localisation ecology. Relevance to questions of ICT and localisation -- 4. Linguistic context. Languages, dialects and linguistic geography. Sociolinguistics and language change. Oral and literate traditions. Language and language in education policies. Basic literacy, pluriliteracy and user skills. Terminology and accommodation of ICT concepts -- 5. Technical context I: physical access. Physical and soft access. Computer hardware and operating systems. Connectivity and ICT policy -- 6. Technical context II: internationalisation. The facilitating technical environment. Handling complex scripts: from ASCII to Unicode. The 'last mile' of internationalisation. Internationalisation and localisation -- 7. African-language texts, encoding and fonts. Non-Latin scripts and ICT. Typology of Latin-based African orthographies. Evolution of African-language text use in ICT. Fonts. 8. Keyboards and input systems.Keyboards. Keyboards for Africa. Alternative input methods -- 9. Defining languages in ICT: tags and locales. Languages and the ISO 639 standards. Locale data -- 10. Internet. E-mail. Internationalisation and the web. Web content in and about African languages. Internationalised domain names -- 11. Software localisation. Applications and operating systems. Trends in proprietary software. Trends in free and open-source software. Software localisation in Africa. Web interfaces -- 12. Mobile technology and other specialised applications. Mobile technology. Audio dimensions: voice, text-to-speech and speech recognition. Computer assisted translation -- 13. Achieving sustainable localisation. Needs by kind of localisation and localiser. Understanding the needs of localisers. Analysis of needs from a pan-African perspective. Facilitating communication about localisation -- 14. Summary, recommendations and conclusion. Major themes. Strategic perspective. Conferences and workshops. Training and public education on localisation. Information resources and networking. Languages, policy and planning. Basic localisation and ICT policies and programmes. Africa and ICT standards for localisation. Advanced applications, tools and research. Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459345103321 |
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| Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, 2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African languages in a digital age [[electronic resource] ] : challenges and opportunities for Indigenous language computing / / Don Osborn
| African languages in a digital age [[electronic resource] ] : challenges and opportunities for Indigenous language computing / / Don Osborn |
| Autore | Osborn Donald Zhang |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (167 p.) |
| Disciplina | 496.0285 |
| Soggetto topico |
African languages
Computational linguistics |
| ISBN |
1-282-57812-X
9786612578120 1-55250-473-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction. 2. Background. Importance of African languages and implications for ICT. What is localisation? Overlapping regional contexts: localisation where? Who localises? What is the current state of localisation across the African region? -- 3. Introducing 'localisation ecology.' An ecological perspective on the environment for localisation. The PLETES model. Dynamic complexes within localisation ecology. Relevance to questions of ICT and localisation -- 4. Linguistic context. Languages, dialects and linguistic geography. Sociolinguistics and language change. Oral and literate traditions. Language and language in education policies. Basic literacy, pluriliteracy and user skills. Terminology and accommodation of ICT concepts -- 5. Technical context I: physical access. Physical and soft access. Computer hardware and operating systems. Connectivity and ICT policy -- 6. Technical context II: internationalisation. The facilitating technical environment. Handling complex scripts: from ASCII to Unicode. The 'last mile' of internationalisation. Internationalisation and localisation -- 7. African-language texts, encoding and fonts. Non-Latin scripts and ICT. Typology of Latin-based African orthographies. Evolution of African-language text use in ICT. Fonts. 8. Keyboards and input systems.Keyboards. Keyboards for Africa. Alternative input methods -- 9. Defining languages in ICT: tags and locales. Languages and the ISO 639 standards. Locale data -- 10. Internet. E-mail. Internationalisation and the web. Web content in and about African languages. Internationalised domain names -- 11. Software localisation. Applications and operating systems. Trends in proprietary software. Trends in free and open-source software. Software localisation in Africa. Web interfaces -- 12. Mobile technology and other specialised applications. Mobile technology. Audio dimensions: voice, text-to-speech and speech recognition. Computer assisted translation -- 13. Achieving sustainable localisation. Needs by kind of localisation and localiser. Understanding the needs of localisers. Analysis of needs from a pan-African perspective. Facilitating communication about localisation -- 14. Summary, recommendations and conclusion. Major themes. Strategic perspective. Conferences and workshops. Training and public education on localisation. Information resources and networking. Languages, policy and planning. Basic localisation and ICT policies and programmes. Africa and ICT standards for localisation. Advanced applications, tools and research. Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792325503321 |
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Osborn Donald Zhang
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| Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African languages in a digital age : challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing / / Don Osborn
| African languages in a digital age : challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing / / Don Osborn |
| Autore | Osborn Donald Zhang |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (167 p.) |
| Disciplina | 496.0285 |
| Soggetto topico |
African languages
Computational linguistics |
| ISBN |
1-282-57812-X
9786612578120 1-55250-473-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction. 2. Background. Importance of African languages and implications for ICT. What is localisation? Overlapping regional contexts: localisation where? Who localises? What is the current state of localisation across the African region? -- 3. Introducing 'localisation ecology.' An ecological perspective on the environment for localisation. The PLETES model. Dynamic complexes within localisation ecology. Relevance to questions of ICT and localisation -- 4. Linguistic context. Languages, dialects and linguistic geography. Sociolinguistics and language change. Oral and literate traditions. Language and language in education policies. Basic literacy, pluriliteracy and user skills. Terminology and accommodation of ICT concepts -- 5. Technical context I: physical access. Physical and soft access. Computer hardware and operating systems. Connectivity and ICT policy -- 6. Technical context II: internationalisation. The facilitating technical environment. Handling complex scripts: from ASCII to Unicode. The 'last mile' of internationalisation. Internationalisation and localisation -- 7. African-language texts, encoding and fonts. Non-Latin scripts and ICT. Typology of Latin-based African orthographies. Evolution of African-language text use in ICT. Fonts. 8. Keyboards and input systems.Keyboards. Keyboards for Africa. Alternative input methods -- 9. Defining languages in ICT: tags and locales. Languages and the ISO 639 standards. Locale data -- 10. Internet. E-mail. Internationalisation and the web. Web content in and about African languages. Internationalised domain names -- 11. Software localisation. Applications and operating systems. Trends in proprietary software. Trends in free and open-source software. Software localisation in Africa. Web interfaces -- 12. Mobile technology and other specialised applications. Mobile technology. Audio dimensions: voice, text-to-speech and speech recognition. Computer assisted translation -- 13. Achieving sustainable localisation. Needs by kind of localisation and localiser. Understanding the needs of localisers. Analysis of needs from a pan-African perspective. Facilitating communication about localisation -- 14. Summary, recommendations and conclusion. Major themes. Strategic perspective. Conferences and workshops. Training and public education on localisation. Information resources and networking. Languages, policy and planning. Basic localisation and ICT policies and programmes. Africa and ICT standards for localisation. Advanced applications, tools and research. Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815114603321 |
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Osborn Donald Zhang
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| Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Fulfulde (Maasina)-English-French lexicon [[electronic resource] ] : a root-based compilation drawn from extant sources followed by English-Fulfulde and French-Fulfulde listings = Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français : une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde / / by Donald W. Osborn, David J. Dwyer, Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr
| A Fulfulde (Maasina)-English-French lexicon [[electronic resource] ] : a root-based compilation drawn from extant sources followed by English-Fulfulde and French-Fulfulde listings = Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français : une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde / / by Donald W. Osborn, David J. Dwyer, Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr |
| Autore | Osborn Donald Zhang |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (709 p.) |
| Disciplina | 496/.322321 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DwyerDavid J
DonahueJoseph I |
| Soggetto topico |
Fula language - French
Fula language - English French language - Fula English language - Fula |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-87013-942-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Matières; Préface; Présentation; Abréviations; Fulfulde-anglais-français; Anglais-fulfulde; Français-fulfulde; Appendices; A. Entrées problématiques; B. Changement de consonnes initiales; C. Extensions verbales; D. Listes de noms arrangés par classe; E. Orthographe et ordre alphabétique; Bibliographie |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457384903321 |
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Osborn Donald Zhang
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| East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Fulfulde (Maasina)-English-French lexicon : a root-based compilation drawn from extant sources followed by English-Fulfulde and French-Fulfulde listings = Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français : une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde / / by Donald W. Osborn, David J. Dwyer, Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr
| A Fulfulde (Maasina)-English-French lexicon : a root-based compilation drawn from extant sources followed by English-Fulfulde and French-Fulfulde listings = Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français : une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde / / by Donald W. Osborn, David J. Dwyer, Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr |
| Autore | Osborn Donald Zhang |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 688 pages) |
| Disciplina | 496/.322321 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DwyerDavid J
DonahueJoseph I |
| Soggetto topico |
Fula language - French
Fula language - English French language - Fula English language - Fula |
| ISBN | 0-87013-942-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Matières; Préface; Présentation; Abréviations; Fulfulde-anglais-français; Anglais-fulfulde; Français-fulfulde; Appendices; A. Entrées problématiques; B. Changement de consonnes initiales; C. Extensions verbales; D. Listes de noms arrangés par classe; E. Orthographe et ordre alphabétique; Bibliographie |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781574603321 |
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Osborn Donald Zhang
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| East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Fulfulde (Maasina)-English-French lexicon : a root-based compilation drawn from extant sources followed by English-Fulfulde and French-Fulfulde listings = Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français : une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde / / by Donald W. Osborn, David J. Dwyer, Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr
| A Fulfulde (Maasina)-English-French lexicon : a root-based compilation drawn from extant sources followed by English-Fulfulde and French-Fulfulde listings = Lexique Fulfulde (Maasina)-Anglais-Français : une compilation basée sur racines et tirée de sources existantes suivie de listes en anglais-fulfulde et français-fulfulde / / by Donald W. Osborn, David J. Dwyer, Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr |
| Autore | Osborn Donald Zhang |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 1993 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 688 pages) |
| Disciplina |
496/.322321
496.322321 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DwyerDavid J
DonahueJoseph I |
| Soggetto topico |
Fula language - French
Fula language - English French language - Fula English language - Fula |
| ISBN | 0-87013-942-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Matières; Préface; Présentation; Abréviations; Fulfulde-anglais-français; Anglais-fulfulde; Français-fulfulde; Appendices; A. Entrées problématiques; B. Changement de consonnes initiales; C. Extensions verbales; D. Listes de noms arrangés par classe; E. Orthographe et ordre alphabétique; Bibliographie |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825986603321 |
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Osborn Donald Zhang
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| East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 1993 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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