Linguistic Diversity References

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General Resources

• Wikipedia, of course
• World Atlas of Language Structures
• Interesting recent PhD on morphology for low-density languages

Semitic Languages

• Alrabiya.net Parallel Broadcast Text in MSA and Dialect
• Amharic NLP website
• Amharic treebank, but also amharic IR
• a little bit about NLP in Ethiopia (or lack thereof)

Niger-Congo Languages

• Official Government Information in the 11 Languages of South Africa
• Pan South-Africa Language Board
• Sesotho
• Pan South Africa Language Board
• Comparative Bantu On-Line Dictionary
• African Languages Identification and Familiarization Aid
• First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages
  • http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-0715.pdf
  • http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-0714.pdf
• A term paper on CCG for Bantu languages today

Related to the social network aspect

• Analysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: A Complex Network Approach

(assumes bipartite graph of languages & consonants)

• Social network of language models (for Facebook)

(very brief, but provides also further motivation/applications for what we're doing)