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| Title | For Standardised Amazigh Linguistic Resources |
|---|---|
| Authors | Youssef Aït Ouguengay and Aïcha Bouhjar |
| Abstract | Amazigh language and culture may well be viewed to have known an unprecedentedbooming in Morocco : more than a hundred- which are published by the RoyalInstitute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM), an institution created in 2001 topreserve, promote and endorse Amazigh culture in all its dimensions. Crucially,publications in the Amazigh language would not have seen light without thevaliant attempts to upgrade the language on the linguistic and technologicallevels. The central thrust of this contribution is to provide a vista about thewhole range of actions carried out by IRCAM. Of prime utility to thispresentation is what was accomplished to supply Amazigh with the necessarytools and corpora without which the Amazigh language would emphatically fail tohave a place in the world of NITCs. After a brief description of the primespecificities that characterise the standardisation of Amazigh in Morocco, aretrospective on the basic computer tools now available for the processing ofAmazigh will be set out. It is concluded that the homogenisation of aconsiderable number of corpora should, by right, be viewed as a strategic moveand an incontrovertible prerequisite to the computerisation of Amazigh, |
| Language | Standards for LRs |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues, Standards for LRs |
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For Standardised Amazigh Linguistic Resources |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ATOUGUENGAY10.949, author = {Youssef Aït Ouguengay and Aïcha Bouhjar}, title = {For Standardised Amazigh Linguistic Resources}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |