Linguists use the Bible to develop language technology for small languages

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 - 10:40 in Mathematics & Economics

If you speak English or another big language, you can talk to your mobile phone, use search engines, and get machine translation systems to do your translations for you. This has been made possible because English is a huge language with a great number of resources that linguists employ to develop language technology. People who speak Faroese, Welsh or Galician are less fortunate.

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