Carnegie Mellon releases data on Haitian Creole to hasten development of translation tools
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 17:49
in Mathematics & Economics
In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) have publicly released spoken and textual data they've compiled on Haitian Creole so that translation tools desperately needed by doctors, nurses and other relief workers on the earthquake-ravaged island can be rapidly developed.