The Use of Distributed Language Translation in Language Management  

Oleh:

Collis, Dirmid Ronan F.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 16 no. 1 (1992), page 53-71.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/16 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The aboriginal peoples of Canada who still speak their language and maintain their culture have two urgent needs: to earn a living comparable to the standard of the population of the rest of the country, and to be able to work within their own culture and within their own habitat. The peoples may, as culturally unrecognized individuals, assimilate to the mainstream society but often at the price of loneliness in the impersonal pluralist society and the need to battle temptation to addiction. The indigenous languages, although spoken and written, have not yet been united or normalized. The characteristics of one of the indigenous languages, a branch of lnuktitut, the language of the Inuit (or Eskimos), are examined here, and several applications of translation technology to the resolution of these economic and social problems are suggested. The solutions proposed are using Distributed Language Translation to provide an interface between the distant dialects of the indigenous languages on one hand and between the indigenous and the official languages of Canada (English and French) on the other. This communications bridge would enable telematic employment in the indigenous language in the traditional habitat. In such a system, data would be received from English or French sources and interfaced to the local language; after processing the data in the indigenous language, telematic workers would return the update to the employer, re-translated into either English or French. Educational applications of DLT in the processing of text for specific target readerships are likewise discussed relative to library automation and telematic learning.

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