Language contact and translingual literacies

Translingual Information Management by Natural Language Processing

Preface Translingual information management that can choose appropriate information and obtain useful knowledge from the ood of global information is being increasingly demanded. Among the related technologies, natural language processing is one of the most promising for meeting information needs because natural language processing can deal with documents that have essential roles in informatio...

TIDES Language Resources: A Resource Map for Translingual Information Access

Continuing improvements in human language algorithms, coupled with improvements in digital storage and processing, inspire growing confidence in multilingual information access systems. Systems exist to transcribe broadcast news, segment broadcasts into individual stories and sort them by topic. These technologies, useful in isolation, are now being combined to produce intelligent multilingual ...

Language Change and Language Contact

Language Contact: Peaceful Coexistence or Emergence of a Contact Language

This paper presents a simple model of linguistic priming between languages in contact, based on the utterance selection model (USM) for language change of Baxter et al. (2006). It will be shown that the emergence or the non-emergence of a new contact language depends on the way potentially bilingual agents choose a language to communicate.

Translingual Information Detection Extraction and Summarization

Objective evaluations are a key aspect of all TIDES research. We use the evaluations to focus attention on key technical challenges and to determine which approaches work (and how well they work). The schedule on the back page lists the formal evaluations and associated workshops planned for 2003. NIST oversees these evaluations and welcomes outside participants (who benefit from and enrich the...